Kingfisher & Spider Web

Gallery: AvianPosted December 23, 2011324 views8 comments

Taken using JPG format but now use RAW Exclusively.

Early morning before the wind, was able to capture the Kingfisher on a perch overlooking a pond. The Spider web was moving in the breeze slightly. Very dark morning before sunrise.

Fuji S5 Pro / JPG/ 1/100 / F5 / ISO 200 / Wimberley Head on Manfrotto Tripod/ Nikon Lens 200-400 VR F4 / full frame
Not Baited , Not Lured in
Constructive Comments Encouraged.

Ho Ho Ho Enjoy the Merry Season !

Bill

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Verdon on December 23, 2011 at 2:11 PM

great shot, looove the kingfishers, looks to me little bit over saturated, thank you for sharing, happy holidays to you too!

Registered on June 10, 2011, 147 Posts, 1444 Comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on December 23, 2011 at 9:31 PM

The Kingfisher looks excellent, Bill, though I agree with Verdon that it seems a bit oversaturated. There's some banding in the green bg that looks like a processing or compression artifact.

Nice catch.

Registered on January 28, 2008, 1767 Posts, 23192 Comments

Comment posted by William Bickle on December 24, 2011 at 8:49 AM

Hello Verdon

Probably too saturated for me too, will repost with less saturation but am away from Hi speed for awhile .

Thanks for the feedback. Very much appreciateed.

Hello Dennis

thanks for feedback. will review again before repost. May have to do with shadow fill.

Cheers.... Ho ho ho

Bill

Registered on June 13, 2011, 183 Posts, 1702 Comments

Comment posted by Ron Dudley on December 24, 2011 at 7:52 PM

Looks to me like this has the potential to be an interesting image but I think it's way over processed.

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Comment posted by antino cervigni on December 25, 2011 at 7:53 AM

Very nice. Best regards Antino

Registered on April 17, 2010, 70 Posts, 202 Comments

Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on December 28, 2011 at 9:25 AM

I really like the composition of this Bill! I think out in the field, your vision of this shot was good and really came together. However, in the processing, I agree it didn't go as well. In addition to the saturation, the image has a lot of noise. I assume that might be because of the over-processing though since your ISO was 200. I certainly think this can be fixed (even in JPG).

Registered on June 19, 2008, 1005 Posts, 8028 Comments

Comment posted by William Bickle on December 28, 2011 at 12:09 PM

Hello Kurt

Thanks for the feedback. This was taken a couple years ago when I was using jpg (Using RAW now). The image was quite underexposed and maybe this adjustment to bring it up has caused the overprocessing and noise. I'll do it again from scratch and be extremley aware of the adjustments ona-at-a-time.

Thanks Very much appreciate the feedback

Bill

Registered on June 13, 2011, 183 Posts, 1702 Comments

Comment posted by Howard Cheek on January 19, 2012 at 6:23 PM

It a really nice comp Bill, I like it. The spider web lines add good interest too.
Has some PP issues, but enough said.
Great shot as posted

Registered on July 24, 2008, 1201 Posts, 10758 Comments