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Posted by Peter Woods on September 30, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Kingfisher
Taken today at Rye Meads RSPB

1Dmk3, EF500 + 2x & 1.4x stacked, iso800, 1/500th sec, f8, resting on window frame of hide, cropped
Posted by David Sewell on September 30, 2009 at 11:59 AM
Nice pose, great background.

David

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Posted by jeff acreman on September 30, 2009 at 12:09 PM
stunning shot with great bg, colour and perch - wonderful bird colours indeed

jeff
Posted by Andy Shepherd on September 30, 2009 at 12:13 PM


Very nice capture Peter, super pose too, BG noise could do with reducing a little more and I would reduce the saturation a touch on the Kingfishers back. All that said, I wish it were mine as I don't have a Kingfisher shot anywhere near as good as this :biggrin:

Andy...
Posted by Guy Rogers on September 30, 2009 at 12:30 PM
Hello Peter.

Lovely pose and nice clean background. I agree that the saturation could be reduced a little.

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Posted by Peter Woods on September 30, 2009 at 12:39 PM
Here it is colour corrected...

Posted by Chris Johnstone on September 30, 2009 at 12:56 PM
I preferred the first Peter,

It looked fine to me. Well done to get this much detail with stacked TCs and a lovely diffuse background.

Chris
Posted by Peter Woods on September 30, 2009 at 2:33 PM
Chris, so do I :wink:
Posted by Danny Green on September 30, 2009 at 8:36 PM
Very nice Peter.

Danny :toast:
Posted by Tim Taylor on October 1, 2009 at 2:55 AM
A great result, particularly considering the stacked converters. It looks as if there's a bit of a halo under the beak which is presumably a processing or compression artefact. I'd like the saturation between the two as well. Wish that was my shot. :smile:

Tim :toast: :toast:
Posted by Peter Woods on October 1, 2009 at 3:45 AM
OK, I have totally re edited this image after the comments and looking at it again. This time I started by correcting exposure and neutralising the whites... WDYT

Posted by Ben Gardner on October 1, 2009 at 4:24 AM
Im going to put the cat amongst the pigeons and say your all wrong I prefer the original image!!!! the others look flat and lifeless. Nice image Peter.
Posted by Craig Jones on October 1, 2009 at 5:29 AM
Cracking KF image,with stunning detail and colours,love the pose/look, well caught and well done Peter :wink: :wink: :wavey:
Posted by Danielle Nichol on October 3, 2009 at 9:35 AM
I prefer the fist too, maybe just a tiny bit off the saturation but not much, I would forget noise reduction on the kingfisher, as this always leads to loss in feather detail which makes it look like paint daubs, there is nothing wrong with a little bit of grain in an image. :smile: :smile:

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