Lilac Breasted Roller With Dinner

[Ed Cordes]

This beautiful bird was photographed in the Tarangire National Park in Tanzania. It was feeding on a river and obviously caught dinner.

1D MK4 with 500 F4 and 1.4X TC. Evaluative metering at ISO 800 and f 7.1 and 1/5000 (I was trying to get flight images that didn't work out). This is a large crop to about 45% of the original image. The BG is the river filled with rain and mud.

Thanks for looking. C&C most welcome.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the pose, eye contact and BG, the food item adds to it. I might crop a bit off the bottom. At this shutter speed you could have gone to ISO 400, even for flight images.

[Ken Watkins]

I know that sometimes we get posts of very highly saturated Lilac Breasted Rollers IMHO this goes a little to far the other way, and looks a little to dark.
Good capture by both you and the bird.

[Marc Mol]

Agree with Ken here, needs some saturation boost on the LBR, the insect is a nice addition, good light and BG also.
TFS

[thijs broekkamp]

Nice moment and pose of the bird, don't like the colour of the background

[Manjesh Lingamurthy]

Nice light, well exposed bird with good details. I prefer more tighter cropping if possible, as there is lot of dead space around the bird, which competes with the bird for attention.