Dear all
Made this with D300, 600mm, ISO 800, 1/100 F6.3
Same KF but another snacks :D
All C & C are welcome & much appreciated
Harshad
Dear all
Made this with D300, 600mm, ISO 800, 1/100 F6.3
Same KF but another snacks :D
All C & C are welcome & much appreciated
Harshad
Harshad, A beautiful, colorful image. May I ask what the background is? THe colors in it so nicely compliment the bird. The tip of the beak and the prey look slightly out of focus, perhaps dof issue? You keep on posting images like this from your country and I think you may have alot of visitors. :)
Harshad this is so lovely! The colors, BG, eye contact and compositon work so well together!
BG is lantana clutter with some flowers ,
applied some blurr on BG , should have mentioned in OP :o
your ODKF collection has surpassed any in India... enjoying every bit of it... loved everything about this image...
Wow, Harshad this is a really colorfull kingfisher. Colors are outstandid and composition works really nice for me. I only wish for more deep of field to show the spider sharp. Did you used some kind of noise reduction or gaussian blur to the background? I am asking because in some parts of the image (the bill tip and the left edge of the perch) there is a lack of details. The eye is killer
this is beautiful image harshad.
bird is popping out very well.
some interesting points written above by juan.
you are growing with the PP skills and i like that.
btw the background looks really un natural to me with the purple cast overall.
Last edited by Mital Patel; 08-27-2009 at 11:11 AM.
Mital , no digital manupulation with BG :D:D , so many jungle flowers and 600mm/F4
Here is RAW , opened it in ACR and saved as JPEG
MItal thanks for repost , but IMHO , colors of KF looks muted in your repost :)
I swear ask any one who has seen this Jewel of Jungle , this bird is fluroscent
OK Harshad - I give in - your kingfisher is more colourful than mine. ;) Sweet pose showing off his spider catch. This guy is just so colourful, and I feel you have exposed the colours very well. A little bit of selective sharpening on the end of the beak and spider will work.
another cracker of this gorgeous bird! your NR and blur did affect the beak-tip and spider in the OP but in your RAW file you can see it is ever-so-slightly out of focus.
as Stu said - selective sharpening of the tip with pixels contracted slightly to avoid halos will sort this out real quick. I like the BG in your OP and love the way you nailed the colours on this one!!
Here is repost with some sharpness added selectively and carefully NR & blurr tool used, few pixels cropped on top
How looks now
OK Harshad - I give in - your kingfisher is more colourful than mine. ;) Sweet pose showing off his spider catch. This guy is just so colourful, and I feel you have exposed the colours very well. A little bit of selective sharpening on the end of the beak and spider will work.
I am loving your KF Stuart , would love to have that buddy in my kitty :)
What an awesome shot Harshad - the colours are so beautiful and the details sharp. Agree re the spider but still a stunner!
I too felt the image had a colour cast. I believe you that this KF is spectacularly coloured, but Mital's version 'feels" more natural to me. Perhaps some saturation can be selectively added to the KF on Mital's version, but the magenta cast is gone now.
Super pose, and the catch is pretty darn cool. Had the KF's head been angled parallel to the sensor instead of turned a bit towards us the prey may had been more in focus. Still, not much to complain about with a terrific opportunity lie this!! :-)
I've got to see this bird in my lifetime Harshad! Another splendid capture, although I do wish you could have stopped down a bit more to get the prey in focus. Not a lot of wiggle room based on your tech specs.
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Harshad, I like your last post the best. You know best what the colors of this bird, were...you were looking at it, and your background with the pastel colors is a great compliment to the bird. Congratulations on this fine capture!
got the point harshad. never seen personally so cant say but i trust you .. just imagined the image and thats why i made a post with correction but still i would prefer kf your's and bg mine ;) if the frame were mine.
Cool bird and the spider adds to it. The removed color cast and desaturation help a lot. I might selectively sharpen bill and spider.
Harshad, Really nice details and colors are fantastic-the repost really looks great.
Another beautiful shot of this bird Harshad Bhai.. All points cover above, only thing I would have wished is a little more DOF. Still a great capture.. Keep them coming. Congrats..
Last edited by Kiran Poonacha; 08-27-2009 at 12:19 PM. Reason: bad english