This was one of the first images I managed to capture of a Kingfisher erupting out of the water, most of the time I'd clip a wing or get the timing all wrong.. :o hoping to improve on this type of image this year....
Image cropped from a landscape orientation, not keen on the big blob of water on the left wing tip, tried to clone it out but it looked wrong...
Techs 1/1600 @ F4 EC-1 ISO 250 1DMK11 N 70/200F2.8 Mounted on a monopod and placed just above the water. Fired with a cable release Area baited to attract fish.
Congrats on a really cool capture, and a difficult one at that. More eye contact would have been a big plus but the wing position and water droplets help to balance things out. Here's a repost with the droplet cloned out.
I downloaded the image and cropped the water out and I think it looks more interesting and clean, but that would´ve benn just my personal aproach if the shot was mine.. but is not :(
Congratulatons on a very nice image, action, pose, details, mood, all looks great to me! Congrats!
Eye contact or not, the action you had captured is absolutely awesome. Doug's little PP work shows what is possible and did it expertly. This image is a total stunner in my humble opinion. If anything, it just looks a little off level, a slight CCW rotation perhaps?
Erupting Kingfisher
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