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    Kingfisher( female) with Bullhead
    Sunlight on and off under dappled leaves blowing in the wind- what a nightmare! The blue tones hange every 10 s3econds !
    The perch is a natural sprag on a fallen tree which has been in the brook 3 years. Quite a way from the nest which also has been used several times.
    Taken this morning- notice the shutter speed.
    D200
    1000 ISO
    200th second @ f9
    80% of frame
    ev - 1 stop.
    Neat image. PP in paint Shop Pro 7
    CZM high pass filter.
    Thanks for looking. Several hundred to come
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    You have nailed that John ...they do keep quite still once they land,i have them sharp at 1/80th sec ..a cracking shot

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    Cheers
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    The light was a pain.
    Forgot to say- I don't like the virtual one colour BG
    John

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    Image quality is fantastic. Colors and feather detail look great. Love the background as well. Too bad it is facing away from us and that the prey item is facing the wrong way as well. Still a great shot, especially at that SS.

    Could you please explain what a CZM high pass filter is? Is that a plug in or what?

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    [QUOTE=Isaac Grant;
    Could you please explain what a CZM high pass filter is? Is that a plug in or what?[/QUOTE]

    Hi Isaac
    CZM is a focus stacking piece of software- not a plug in as such. Its a stand aslone job which is free to download. When the programme blends several images together it finally applies a high pass filter which I find very good. I found by accident that it also applied the fllter if you only put one image in instead of several. So you put the image in, say "do stack" and it applies the high pass filter to the one image.
    Hope that helps.
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    I'd love to give that a try. Thanks for the info. Do you have any suggestions as to the best settings, etc. as I have never used the software.

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    Backgrounds fine for me, the Kingfisher stands out well against it.
    That Bullheads going down the hatch, great feather detail, colours look good and the perch looks natural.

    Graham.

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    Cheers
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    Isaac
    If you get the programme - contact me and I'll talk you through it .
    Cheers
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    wow, amazing looking bird! Nice job with getting close enough to capture the details sharp, great color too. I wish I could get close to a king fisher, haha I'll keep on tryin'

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    First off, great looking BG :) To bad it didn't work out to where you weren't shooting from the other side with the sun at your back. Would have been perfect. Not that this isn't nice, just not lined up perfectly. Besides that, the exposure and details look awesome! Well done
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    Cheers
    both.
    True David. Pity this aspect is the only ones with a big fishy !!
    Plenty of emty beak jobs.
    Thanks for your comments- appreciated.
    John

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    Great image John, not your type of BG but I love it, no distraction that would take away from making the colorful bird pop!

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    Thanks Glen. In fact the BG is water !(full of green blanket weed.)
    John

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