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Feast

by Ken Watkins

Gallery: AvianPosted October 28, 201476 views7 comments
A Carmine Bee-eater enjoys a "cricket" for breakfast in the Savute Channel, Botswana
EOS 1D MkIV
500mm F4
F 7.1
ISO 800
1/5000, EV +0.33

Comments

7 comments
Comment posted by Martin Dunn on October 28, 2014 at 8:28 AM
A very beautiful bird and the cricket in the beak adds interest.
To my eye though it looks very dark and could do with lightening a bit to bring out the wonderful plumage colours a bit more brightly
Registered on February 20, 2013, 198 Posts, 1011 Comments
Comment posted by Keith Bauer on October 28, 2014 at 10:56 AM
Cool moment with the cricket breakfast. The light didn't appear to be much help here. It has a backlit look to the bird, but the shadows on the perch leads me to believe the light was from the top right?? Needs some post processing tweak to help out the bird.
Registered on November 20, 2003, 458 Posts, 4836 Comments
Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on October 28, 2014 at 4:48 PM
Martin expressed my thoughts exactly. Selectively warming and brightening the bird should lift this up a notch or two!
Registered on July 24, 2006, 2741 Posts, 12349 Comments
Comment posted by Nate Chappell on October 28, 2014 at 4:51 PM
Great to get him with the cricket and a nice perch. As posted it's too dark, without sun against a pale sky you probably had to be more like +1.0 EV or use fill flash. If you lighten it up that will improve it. :toast:
Registered on February 1, 2006, 1158 Posts, 19528 Comments
Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on October 28, 2014 at 10:45 PM
Really like the pose, the thorn perch and the meal in this one Ken. Agree the bird needs some selective lightening...If it were mine, I might just bring up the shadows a bit in LR...when I do that I usually give a slight boost to the contrast also.
Registered on June 19, 2008, 1005 Posts, 8028 Comments
Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on October 29, 2014 at 1:13 AM
Cool moment. Tough light. I'm with Nate: fill flash or an Ev of +1.3 or 1.6.
Registered on August 28, 2006, 1240 Posts, 8506 Comments
Comment posted by Ken Watkins on October 29, 2014 at 1:37 AM
I agree that this looks too dark , so here is a re-post hope it looks better :wink:
Registered on December 15, 2010, 1537 Posts, 4877 Comments