Southern Carmine Bee-eater in golden light. Sth Luangwa Nat Park - Zambia.
Nikon D2Xs, 300 f/2.8 VR, ISO100, 1/1000s. f/2.8, 300mm.
C & C most welcome
Cheers
Marc
Southern Carmine Bee-eater in golden light. Sth Luangwa Nat Park - Zambia.
Nikon D2Xs, 300 f/2.8 VR, ISO100, 1/1000s. f/2.8, 300mm.
C & C most welcome
Cheers
Marc
Last edited by Marc Mol; 07-23-2008 at 06:30 AM.
Hi Marc,
Lovely colors. Looks like a heavy crop. I would remove the noise in the BG.
Great pose, eye contact and BG. There is a slight sharpening halo around the bird and the front part of the bill looks as if it was attached.
I like the pose and BG. The bird looks a little underexposed to me.
This has similar colours to your last Carmine posting, to my mind it is oversaturated, the red is supposed to be carmine.
Nice action though.
The bird could go a bit brighter, esp. the head and the upper surface of the tail. Would love to have seen the bird lower in the frame to get it away from the line between the darker (above) and lighter section of the BKGR. Barring that, I would suggest a crop from the bottom.
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Oh man, this is a difficult image to capture. Nice job freezing a flying bee-eater & that too keeping it sharp through out...