Stork Billed Kingfisher

[Harshad Barve]

Dear all
Got this lifer in my recent trip to Bandhavgarh NP. Bandhavgarh NP is great place for birding too, Nearly 255 species of birds.
This is 6th KF in my collection. We have 12 species of KF here in India

7D , 300f4 + 1.4x , ISO 400, 1/500 , f 5.6 , handheld

All C & C are most welcome & much appreciated
Harshad

[arash_hazeghi]

Hi Harshad,
Very beautiful bird, sharp and nice details. you forgot to add the techs, but everything is great. I would clone out the branch that coming out of tail and the entire branch in the upper left of the perch or at least parts of it that intersect with the bird. Well done

[Harshad Barve]

. you forgot to add the techs,

Ouch:o , added now

I would clone out the branch that coming out of tail and the entire branch in the upper left of the perch or at least parts of it that intersect with the bird.

Tried but could not do cleanly

[arash_hazeghi]

Ouch:o , added now



Tried but could not do cleanly

email me the full size jpeg file, I will work on it when I get a chance.

Best

[arash_hazeghi]

Harshad,
Here is a cleaner version, will look better if you start from RAW

You can keep or remove the other branches.

[Harshad Barve]

Arsahbhai ,
Thanks a ton , need to learn more about cloning

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

With cloning I would have left it at the twig under the tail personally. But each to their own. I do like the OP Harshadbhai, nice eye contact and like the soft lighting.

[Gyorgy Szimuly]

Yes, repost suggest what I wanted to mention. Not only because of the branch crossing behind the head but it became hot. Nevertheless, I love this image. Eye contact and sharpness is really good.

Szimi

[James Salywoda]

Gorgeous bird and shot Harshad the repost looks fantastic.

[RAM MALLYA]

I loved the re post We can do a lot in PP