Yellow Billed Kite

[Ken Watkins]

This Kite was hovering over a small waterhole in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, 8th September 2011.

Full frame in terms of width

EOS iD MkIV

500mm F4 IS hand-held from standing position

F8, ISO 800, 1/2000, EV +0,67

[Bill Dix]

Great wingspread and head angle, amazingly captured full frame without clipping wingtips. Good detail and exposure. Very nicely done.

[Brendan Dozier]

Nice FF BIF capture, Ken. Beautiful looking Kite. Like the POV, wingspread and sharp details.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Ken, nice wing spread and HA. tricky situation...usually, you'd add lots of light for such image but that would have blown the bill. I guess you underexposed it a bit and then pulled the shadows...noise is seen...but the other choice would have blown the bill.

[gail bisson]

Ken,
This is great. Having just returned from Africa and taking about 100 pics of these birds ( and deleting 90) I appreciate the detail very much. It is so hard to expose the browns of this bird so I tip my hat off to you! The IQ and feather detail are awesome. Simply excellent,
Gail

[Ken Watkins]

Thanks everbody for your kind comments they are much appreciated, the fact that this Kite was hovering helped greatly in getting the exposure right