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Kingfisher -environment ? shot two

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Posted by Chris Jones on October 13, 2008 at 3:35 PM
Another Cyprus shot and trying to explore the environment capture again. The soft all around the bird is all in the origional and come from partially obscuring the shot with a very close rock and the way the background turned out. I did get some clean closer shots as well!

1DMkIII
500mm F4.0
x1.4
1/1600th
f8.0

Slight Crop

C&C very welcome

Regards Chris
Posted by keith mitchell on October 13, 2008 at 4:39 PM
Hi Chris.
I can see where you are coming from with these shots,i like what i see.

:toast: Mitch.
Posted by John Robinson on October 13, 2008 at 4:57 PM
Hi Chris
Nice idea and one small nit is the lack of detail in the dark head area. You should be able to get a bot of that back.
Cheers
John
Posted by Drew Mellowship on October 13, 2008 at 5:42 PM
I like it, i think i could see why it could receive a mixed bag but definitely works for me - really isolates the subject well !

Drew :smile:
Posted by William Jewsbury on October 14, 2008 at 2:08 AM
I'm not sure about this one. It doesn't really show the environment and so the subject looks a bit isolated in the frame, but thats just me.
Could definitely pull some more detail out of the head area.
Posted by Dawn Monrose on October 14, 2008 at 6:28 AM
I like it. The background has a lovely painterly feel. The thing that lets it down for me is a lack of eye contact/head turn. The surroundings highlight the bright colours of the bird well though.

Posted by Chris Jones on October 14, 2008 at 3:07 PM
Thank you for all your comments, very much appreciated

Regards Chris
Posted by Magnus Hird on October 16, 2008 at 7:23 AM
I do like the way the OOF FG and BG isolate the bird, other comments covered :smile: