Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher with food for baby.

[Satish Ranadive]

Image was created in the July,2015. This is 13cms long bird.

Basic editing. FF slight crop for composition. NR applied to BG.

ISO: 1250, 1/640 @7.1. Evaluative metering. Manual settings.
Tripod. 7d, Tamron,150-600 mm.Picture style: neutral.

Thanks for viewing, critiques and comments,
Kind Regards,
Satish.

[adrian dancy]

Excellent capture. The prey item is just fantastic. It would have been nice if you had all of the tail. Bird looks well posed and the colours are good.

[Joseph Przybyla]

I echo Adrian's comments. Lovely image, Satish. Thank you for sharing.

[Ian Wilson]

Wonderful capture Satish. Poor lizard but it adds a huge amount of interest. Overall the bird looks a bit soft to me for a 'FF slight crop'. There can be many reasons for this and I will not speculate. Regards, Ian.

[keith mitchell]

I like this a lot Satish, cracking bird on a nice clean bg ,note Ian's comment re sharping not sure my eyes are good enough but the head looks very good and maybe a little loss on the back and tail,take this with a pinch of salt my 0ne and half eyes are not the best, superb colours and the Lizard is icing on the cake, excellent capture.

Keith.

[Satish Ranadive]

Adrian, Joseph, Ian and Keith,
Thank al for your feed back and kind comments.
Ian, Thanks for comments, I will look in to Raw file and find out what went wrong.

Regards,
Satish.

[Bill Dix]

Great colors, great lizard. Echo the comments above.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Satish what a nice frame of this little beauty of a KF .The prey (looks like a Skink ) is very large from my POV , hope the youngsters made it with swallowing this big thing.
Lovely setting with the mossy perch , agree about the missing tip of the lizard tail .
For me there is too much noise visible in the bird and it is a bit too punchy in the colors , you have lost some detail specially in the feet ! I would try to rework .... well worth a try from my POV .
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Nice one , Satish

TFS Andreas

[William Dickson]

Fantastic colours and detail here Satish. Lovely HA and pose.

Will

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the colorful bird, catch, perch and clean BG. I agree with the comment made by Andreas. Look forward to seeing the repost.

[Satish Ranadive]

Thank you all for your feed back. The original image is underexposed. Reprocessed again. Hope it looks better now.

Satish.

[keith mitchell]

Satish I thought the original post looked very good ,but the repost has improved it IMHO.

Keith.

[Mervyn Marsh]

man what a shot, ur a lucky guy to be birding with these..

[Satish Ranadive]

Thank you Keith and Mervyn for your comments.

Regards,
Satish.

[arash_hazeghi]

love the pose and the prey, what a colorful specie! a bit more sharpening will help. I wish the tip was not clipped at the very end

TFS

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Excellent capture Satish! Love the colours, the pose and the prey item. Wonderful work Satish Ji!

[Satish Ranadive]

Arash and Sanjeev,
Thank you so much for your kind comments.
Arash, Will give some sharpening.

Regards,
Satish.