Yellow Billed Hornbill

Gallery: AvianPosted May 1, 201385 views11 comments

This was taken fairly early morning on the plains at Ngweshla, Hwange, Zimbabwe.

EOS 1DX
500mm F4 MkII
F5.6
ISO 800
1/4000
EV-0.33

Comments

11 comments

Comment posted by Claude Dagenais on May 1, 2013 at 7:27 AM

Great pose, difficult lighting well handled and excellent detail. Thanks for bringing this species to my attention. I guess you don't get too much nice diffused light in that part of the world. The subject is well isolated and the background looks very good. Very nice capture.

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Comment posted by Mike Ramy on May 1, 2013 at 10:35 AM

Wow Ken, this is nice,
Cool lighting, great BG, outstanding detail and action.
Well Done . . .

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on May 1, 2013 at 3:43 PM

Lovely detail and action. Being slightly OCD on comp, I could stand more in front and less behind.

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Comment posted by Barb Pflaum on May 1, 2013 at 8:02 PM

I love the pose! Great detail and color. Very nicely done.

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Comment posted by Sharon Hallowell on May 1, 2013 at 10:21 PM

Really nice bg and lighting on this bird. Sharon

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on May 2, 2013 at 2:07 AM

Thanks very much for your kind comments, they are very much appreciated

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Comment posted by Jim Hackley on May 2, 2013 at 11:46 AM

Way to cool and wonderful timing to get this pose. Nice detail in the shadows and the back lighting really adds to the image, a pleasure to view.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on May 2, 2013 at 7:48 PM

Wonderful pose and light, Ken. Beautiful image.

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on May 3, 2013 at 2:10 AM

Jim and Dennis,

Thanks for your appreciation

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Comment posted by Jeff Lewis on May 3, 2013 at 3:45 PM

Really nice shot Ken, excellent job with the detail with the lighting like that. There's one sensor dust spot to the left of the head you might want to heal/clone, it drew my eye a bit. Well done.

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on May 4, 2013 at 3:11 AM

Jeff,

Well "spotted", I had noticed that

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