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Kingfisher, sky watching.

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Posted by Andy Shepherd on September 6, 2010 at 6:22 AM
Kingfisher, sky watching.
One from my ongoing Kingfisher project. This particular perch is in shadow for most of the day, so I got lucky when the Kingfisher timed it's arrival just as the sun peered through the trees to illuminate it, to capture it looking skyward was a bonus too.

Tried a less aggressive sharpening technique on this one, how does it look ?

Processed in DPP / CS2 ( minor crop )

1/640th @ f5.6 -1/3rd iso800

All comments welcome and thanks for looking.

Andy... :smile:
Posted by Justin on September 6, 2010 at 7:56 AM
A fine portrait. Sharpening looks fine to me and there's certainly no focus problem evident here.
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Posted by Sandra Hendrikse on September 6, 2010 at 8:04 AM
Lovely portrait and a great pose. Sharpening looks fine to me too. :smile:
Posted by Graham Goddard on September 6, 2010 at 8:19 AM
Sharpening looks OK - throat's a bit hot, but that goes with the territory when photographing these birds.

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Posted by Austin Thomas on September 6, 2010 at 8:39 AM
Sharpening looks fine to me Andy. A good catchlight as well.

Cheers

Austin
Posted by Ian Macdermott on September 6, 2010 at 9:29 AM
Looks OK to me Andy :toast:


Hot throat an all :razz:
Posted by Dale Sutton on September 6, 2010 at 10:23 AM
Good picture concidering the harsh light conditions.

Dale :toast:
Posted by David Taylor on September 6, 2010 at 12:23 PM
Are you sure it hasn't got a stiff neck, Andy. :biggrin: :wink: A good image indeed.

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Posted by Geoffrey Baker on September 6, 2010 at 1:10 PM
A lovely image.
Looks fine on my monitor too :smile:
Well done.

Geoff.
Posted by Barrie Courtenay on September 6, 2010 at 1:11 PM
Great pose

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Posted by John Robinson on September 6, 2010 at 1:13 PM
Nice one indeed.
An upright perch would have been the icing for me :smile:
No big deal.
JR
Posted by Andrew Mason on September 6, 2010 at 3:09 PM
Slight nit is the burnt out white throat which I appreciate is virtually inevitable in these lighting conditions. Andrew
Posted by Andy Shepherd on September 6, 2010 at 4:53 PM

Thanks for the comments guys, cheers :toast:

Re the hot throat, not a great deal I could do about that, I think this is my best Kingfisher shot to date, so I'll keep working on getting the whites right.

Andy... :wavey:
Posted by Ian Mason on September 6, 2010 at 5:54 PM
Sharpening looks spot on. Superb image.
Posted by Craig Jones on September 7, 2010 at 6:35 AM
Beautiful pose captured realy well Andy.Portrait composition makes the image along with the pose for me,wonderful :wink: :wink: :wavey: