In all seriousness, this is a mere grabshot with a fair amount of PP going into it. Only as far as the BG. I was photographing something totally different that morning and this little fella (they are tiny) just landed about 8m from me in a tree. So there was nothing I could have done about the business of the scene. Since I still don't have a really sharp and detailed image of one of these endearing little river kingfishers I applied all the PP skills I have, which are few, and went to work. To see a comparison to the original feel free to read my blog posting here. I found that Content Aware Fill (new CS5 fill option) worked well in some instances especially with the shadow on the orange breast you can see in the original on my blog post. The background was modified with a combination of CAF, patch and clone tools and some quick masking as well. All in all, this was really a rather difficult job. I reckon it would have been much easier to stick a perch in a stream near my home and wait in a hide and create this in camera. :o ('cept it's too hot here for hides, even in winter)
30D, 300mm f/4L IS USM + 1.4x, ISO400, f/8, 1/640th, Evaluative metering at 0, f430EX @ +1/3 with beamer, hand held, 70% of original image size. Applied linear burn to the white nape patch






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