Flight of Fantasy

[Kiran Poonacha]

This is an Indian Roller, with the wings closed you cannot see much colours in them, but in flight all the beautiful shades of Blue show up.

spec: 1/3200, F 5.6, ISO 800

Mk4 + 500mm + 1.4TC

[Jan Wegener]

spectacular pose and image kiran :)

[Richard Mc Donald]

My jaw dropped!

Can't think of anything else to add.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

beautiful pose,eye contact...wing position!!!

[Jim Crosswell]

Amazing image Kiran! Great wing position, HA and colours in this one.

[Mital Patel]

wow seen that before but here it looks something new :) you the man bhai. always rocking

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Kiran, the noise you just heard was my jaw hitting the floor. Stunning stunning shot.

I'd move the bird a little lower in the frame...but great shot as-is too.

[Doug Brown]

Breathtaking Kiran! Congrats on a superior image!

[Stu Bowie]

Kiranbhai, great flight posture, and showing the colours perfectly. Well captured.

[denise ippolito]

Kiran, Beautiful pose,details and comp. Fantastic! Congratulation.:)

[Art Kornienko]

My jaw just dropped too, can't add anything else to this one, it's got everything. A stunner.

[Mark Young]

Beautifullly captured! I imagine you were pretty stoked when you saw this in the viewfinder.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Kiran, this is simply fabulous!!!! Just a bit more sharpening for web, but man this is too good. Better hang up your gear 'cause I don't know how you will top this...:p

[Arthur Morris]

BBC material if it meets the guidelines. Congrats. Please post a full frame jpeg that accurately represents the converted RAW file. I am imagining that you at least cropped from the top and one of the sides....

[Arthur Morris]

ps: When I saw the thumbnail I thought, "Chris Van Rooyen." Welcome to the greatness club bhai!

[Haim Ziv]

Killer shot!!

[DanLim]

OH MY GOD !!!! Astonishing !

[jfranciskay]

Outstanding in every respect! Congrats!

[stuart wanuck]

what a beautiful image

[Troy Lim]

Kiran, spectacular shot.

[Craig Brelsford]

You chose the right light, the right settings, and very importantly the right bird. Mother Nature helped create this exciting image by painting the underwings of the roller those lovely shades of blue. You did your part by seeing the possibilities in the situation. Something tells me you visualized something like this shot before you took it. Was that the case?

[Danny Laredo]

Stunning flight image and capture. Love the spread out wings.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Thank you all my dearest people for you great works of appreciation and encouragement... really really value them..

Thanks Again..

Kiran

[Arthur Morris]

Kiran, You are most welcome. Please see my request in Pane #14. Thanks.

[Kiran Poonacha]

BBC material if it meets the guidelines. Congrats. Please post a full frame jpeg that accurately represents the converted RAW file. I am imagining that you at least cropped from the top and one of the sides....

ps: When I saw the thumbnail I thought, "Chris Van Rooyen." Welcome to the greatness club bhai!

Thank you my dearest Guruji for your kind words, your words are always special to me as I have always considered you as my guru and the person I look up to.

Sorry guruji the raw file is in the HD at office, will post it on Monday. I have cloned out some distracting branches from the frame and sure its cropped.

Thank you again,

Kiran

[Kiran Poonacha]

Kiran, You are most welcome. Please see my request in Pane #14. Thanks.

I was writing a special thank you note with the reply, but by which time you had posted this. will do on monday guru.

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks for your kind word Kiran-bhai. They touch my heart. I am curious in part as to the original composition and also to learn which focusing sensor you used, and a bit more :)

[Trivedi Vatsal]

A wonder by the wonderful photographer of India! Bows to you Guruji!!

[Gary Hamilton]

A masterpiece and a great source of inspiration for the rest of us to keep trying to capture something as incredible as this image. Just curious . . . how many frames did you shoot in this sequence and did you entice the roller toward you (not that this would be a bad thing) or just anticipate/visualize the moment perfectly? Congratulations!!!

[Adrian David]

Absolutely stunning photography!!!
The colors, the BG, the pose...are just perfect...

[Kiran Poonacha]

You chose the right light, the right settings, and very importantly the right bird. Mother Nature helped create this exciting image by painting the underwings of the roller those lovely shades of blue. You did your part by seeing the possibilities in the situation. Something tells me you visualized something like this shot before you took it. Was that the case?

A masterpiece and a great source of inspiration for the rest of us to keep trying to capture something as incredible as this image. Just curious . . . how many frames did you shoot in this sequence and did you entice the roller toward you (not that this would be a bad thing) or just anticipate/visualize the moment perfectly? Congratulations!!!

Thank you Graig and Gary,

Sure had something like this in mind for a long time, was expecting the take off as these birds done sit in one place for long. But another roller just flew over us and this bird took off backwards give me this chance. I totally made about 6 frames and this I like most.

[Kiran Poonacha]

For Guruji: this is the full frame guru

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks Kiran, Well done on the clean-up; actually a great job. You might try a version with a bit wider crop.

What sensor was active? May we assume that you were in AI Servo AF mode?