After 5 trips to Ranganathittu for this bird could I get a decent close shot of this species.
This is a full frame image.
Comments and Critiques welcome...
Canon 1000D, 300 f/4 + 1.4x II TC
SS 1/100
f/5.6
ISO 400
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After 5 trips to Ranganathittu for this bird could I get a decent close shot of this species.
This is a full frame image.
Comments and Critiques welcome...
Canon 1000D, 300 f/4 + 1.4x II TC
SS 1/100
f/5.6
ISO 400
Lovely perch, details and eye contact. Sharp image. It seems your 5 trips to Ranganathittu have finally paid off . Thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Mrudul Godbole
Wow! your persistance paid off Bibhav. This is by far one of the best images of Pied KF that I have seen recently. Great work!
tfs
Nice and sharp bibhav and excellent placement of the subject. a little more brightness? or it could be my monitor.
regards
roopak
Dear Bibhav
Brilliant...!!!! Its not easy to get the correct exposure on pied subjects, you have done outstandingly well !!!
Also i though you have come close enough to the bird without disturbing it, it looks more like a 500f4+1.4x image rather than a 300f4+1.4x image...!! kudos to you for that as well.
Cheers
Dipankar
Actually thanks to the boatman, we could get close. He knew very well how not to disturb the bird and there were just 2 people on the boat and we kept still. :-)
It was a really nice experience to be so close to one... I was unsure at one point if I should be looking through the viewfinder or with my bare eyes...
I agree with Dipankar. It is not easy to get these guys close. Once I had got pied kingfisher close during boating, however the boatsman is so used to guys with long lenses that he moved the boat much closer than I was comfortable.Wish you could have used a higher shutter speed. If possible moving to the right would have been great. How long did you get to see this one?
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Sabyasachi, the sighting was for around 5 mins (up close time) after which it flew off. This was shot between the branches near the place where they nest in Ranganathittu, so couldn't move much. I know the transecting tree in the background and the beak distract, but had no other option. Will keep going back there to make better images of these fellows before I leave Mysore...
Last edited by Bibhav Behera; 05-09-2010 at 04:09 PM.
lovely bird... I think I need to work on my patience factor as I dun have much of it.
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