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    Default The pied Piper of the Kingfoshers

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    Camera : Canon 1D MK III
    Lens : Canon 600mm f4 IS
    Shutters : 1/2000
    Aperture : f5
    Speed : ISO 1000
    Exp Compensation : -.33 EV

    Had to go high on the speed to ensure sharpness , as this was made from a rocking boat at Lake Naivasha , Kenya . These Pied Kingfishers are particularly bold , as they allow the boats to come quite near , but the boatmen at Naivasha are not that photographer friendly . They somehow do not understand the co relation between photography and distance and angles and also light even after instructing them . Here , I was quite lucky to make this image with the right light , perch and BG :) .

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    It certainly turned out nice and sharp. Lovely bg. and good perch to get the bird nicely isolated.

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    Beautiful light and colors and a Nice OOF BG to show him off against.
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    Great IQ and exposure, Rakesh. enjoying all the details. not sure what you have on top, but if it is nice, I'd place the bird lower in the frame.

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    Nice and sharp and well exposed.
    Agree about moving it down a bit.
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    NIK Tonal Contrast and some branch work. Would have left more room in front for the repost had I not made a mess of the urc....
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    This is around 85% of the frame . The original does have some part in front of the bird , but is a bit cluttered . Had not done anything except crop and sharpen . The NIK Tonal Contrast does add some boost here .

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    Excellent shot with very nice soft background.

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    Beautiful image Rakesh - gorgeous quality, great detail.

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    great pose and nice details, good BG, the smaller branch in the orig was distracting, Artie's repost fixes it
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    awesome

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