BCBE TOSS !!

[Mital Patel]

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (Merops persicus)
Camera : Nikon D300
Lens : Nikkor 80-400D ED VR f4.5/5.6
Exposure : 1/800sec @ 400mm
Aperture : f/8
ISO Rating : 200
Captured On : Nov 1 2009, 9:38 am
Location : Thol bird Sanctuary, Kadi, Mehsana, Gujarat, INDIA

C&C Welcome

[arash_hazeghi]

Awesome Mital, this is better than the last one, great action captured here sharp and nice, I would clean up the lower branch (lots of poop!) or even explore removing the entire lower branch. Great work

[Mital Patel]

thanks arash.
the fact i did not worked on lower branch is

1. i had to add the virtual tail
2. sort of a major work task / ethics to add something which is not present.

[Harshad Barve]

Mitalbhai ,
One amazing image , lovely action very well frozen , techs are perfect and killer BG
If mine I will keep lower branch as it is ,
TFS

[Dave Blinder]

Outstanding action capture and great sharpness.

[Clement Francis]

An all round perfection achieved here, great timing, great BG and amazing lighting

[Doug Brown]

Incredible timing and a very nice image Mital! A bit more shutter speed would have sharpened up the insect. I rarely dip below ISO 400 because noise is minimal and the extra shutter speed never hurts.

[John Blumenkamp]

Awesome work Mital... great timing, light and overall comp/pose of the bee-eater with the open beak and insect in mid-air. :)

[Glenn Bartley]

Just awesome! This behaviour lends itself so well to photography...

[Chris Baker]

First class!! Wow, compo, Bg, Ha etc etc, all spot on!!

[denise ippolito]

Great capture and timing. Nice job w/ the tail. Beautiful details and BG.

[James Salywoda]

Tremendous shot Mital I love the action captured....

[Stu Bowie]

Amazingly sharp Mital, and very well done on capturing the tossing of his catch. Lovely well exposed colours, and great pp work on the tail.

[Mital Patel]

thanks stuart.
btw for this image i have done nothing except clone out the bottom branches disturbing and making buzy bottom. no other work done with this image not even level curve.

found it really good enough first time that i had not to touch or do anything over the image :)

[Fabs Forns]

Wow, Mital, this is outstanding! You could just sharpen the bug selectively.
D300 is good at ISO 400, my default ISO.

[Mital Patel]

thanks fabs, even i do also use 400 as default and spent an entire year almost 90% my frames. somehow i found the light very good and thought of trying lewer ISO. but yes if i've plan to visit the place again to shoot same bird with wings open and different wing position landing lifting etc and at that time 400 will sure help.

[David Fletcher]

Just amazing! Outstanding shot Mita. Work sharpening the "dinner". Congrats .....

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Excellent action shot. Sharpness is awesome. Thx for sharing.

KD

[Mike Lentz]

Wonderful image!!!

[ChasMcRae]

Action especially sharp always grabs attention and this is perfect.
Suggestion of focus sharpening of insect is great and if it were me I would get rid of white "poop".

[Michael Zajac]

Really nice catch! I love the timing and the details.

[Rod Wiley]

Great shot, this is what it would look like without the poop.

[Ilija Dukovski]

Wow, excellent shot, great timing. This kind of shots win competitions.
What is the insect BTW? Do you know its name?

[Kiran Poonacha]

beautiful image bhai, great timing and the colours with that BG put it over the top, big congrats..

[Gyorgy Szimuly]

Nice image. I would crop just a little from the left. I have no problem with the whitewash.

Szimi

[Nagesh Mula]

This time you nailed him properly Mital, great shot and Congrats!!
I don't have a problem with whitewash but then its a purely personal view.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Lovely. I wish you had used ISO 400. I like the excreta as it tells a story.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Dan Brown]

SWEET!!! Great timing and tech!!! CONGRATS!

[Glenda Simmons]

Excellant behavior shot...I do like the repost minus the poop, better.