Common kingfisher

[gary rouleau]

Just back from Switzerland. Very limited time to photograph but made the most of it.
Tough lighting conditions .

Common kingfisher
Canon MarkIII
Canon 600 f/4 +1.4x

Iso 800 f/7.1 1/250

Comments and Suggestions?
Cheers
gary

[Keith Carver]

Beautiful portrait, Gary. Like the pose, perch and BG. The head looks a little soft on my screen. Also you might try a couple of USM passes (120/0.3/1) on the eye. Where in Switzerland?

[Stu Bowie]

Lovely natural colours Gary, and the pose looks good. I agree, this is a tad soft. I feel with your FL and such a slow ss has made this soft.

[Doug Brown]

Glad to see you made it home safely with some nice photos! Time to start packing for Costa Rica! Good points above. Also wish for a slight head turn towards you.

[Julian Mole]

Hi Gary,

I hope you don't mind but I've done a few adjustments to your original image. I liked your original image but I noticed that it had a bit of a blue colour cast and also looked a little flat so I took it into Photoshop and corrected the cast using Colour Balance, plus minor alterations with Selective Colour, Saturation and Curves.

I hope you like it. (If you do, I can provide more details of the adjustments - so you can do them to your TIFF or PSD original)

All the best,

Julian.