Great Kiskadee on Cattail

[Alan Murphy]

Great Kiskadee

Alamo, TX

D3, 600, ISO 2000, f7, 1/2000, Fill @ -2.3 FV.

You can see the set-up I did for this shot on my blog here. http://alanmurphyphotography.com/blog/

I pre-focused on the cattail and set the focus to manual. As I saw the Kiskadee approach, I just fired the shutter.

I got him right as he was about to land. So much fun when you have multiple birds landing and taking off over and over.

[Todd Frost]

Another beauty Alan, love the comp. Exposure and sharpness look good, would like to brighten the eye area slightly. TFS
Todd

[Lorant Voros]

Beautiful pose, Alan. Your set up is great and your blog is very interesting.

[Ilija Dukovski]

Great wings view and very nice set-up. I think the leftmost cattail
could show just a bit more of the stem in a less tight crop.
I got your CD, like it a lot.

[Daniel Belasco]

Beautiful wing position. Great as is. If your one to remove branches, they are quite a few and a little distracting. The one of the left and maybe the thin one on the right. This would keep your eye on the bird more.
The wway the image is now--it's 2 parts, the bird and the cat tails and 2, almost equal or equal, part image don't work that well. But I love the image.

[arash_hazeghi]

Excellent shot Alan as usual, love the wing position and the perch. very cool! perfect as presented.

[Jean Chang]

Alan, you're killing me with these gorgeous shots! I can't wait for better weather to get moving on that CD. This one is beautiful, once again, and I don't mind the cattails at all the way it is. I don't find it distracting, and in fact, I think adds to the natural look of the shot.

[Jim Fenton]

Setup is great.

Wingspread is perfect as is sharpness and exposure.

I really enjoy the light coming through the outstretched wings.

Two things I might have done a bit differently would have been to tine down the bright areas above the bird and also to lighten the dark part of the head to the left of the eye a bit.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

This is insane Alan. WOW! THanks for sharing your technique and GREAT photograph. :)

[Bruce Enns]

Absolutely gorgeous Alan! I love the bird and the spread wings of course, but I also love the multicoloured background and the multiple perches.

Beautiful.

Cheers!
Bruce

[niranjan sant]

just magnificient image,great details too

[Ted Willcox]

Another great image by Alan. A little less room on the left and a little more room on the right . Well done
Ted

[Malcolm Benn]

Fantastic image .. love the Blog and the CD.

[Robert Hardy]

stunning shot.
Rob.