Blue-tailed Bee-eater

[Sandipan Ghosh]

Blue-tailed Bee-eater is the passage migrant in summer. A large flock of this bird is nesting in the river banks of Damodar during this time.
It was a cloudy morning and I had managed to get few close shots of this bird, habitat and food behaviour etc. I am trying to post a series of photos of this bird with their activity.
Date - 08/04/2017
Place - Damodar River, Barddhaman, West Bengal
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Sigma 150-600 mm
Focal Length: 562 mm
Shutter Speed: 1/800 sec
Aperture: f/9
ISO: 1000

[Mrudul Godbole]

Lovely pose and eye contact from both the birds. Nice colours. The prey is a bonus. I feel a rectangular framing with some more space on the right, would have strengthened the composition further. Thanks for sharing.

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Lovely. I agree with Mrudul that this is an unconventional composition, but it seems to work okay in this case, in my opinion. Is the throat plumage naturally so smooth? Or is noise reduction removing some of the feather details?

[Sandipan Ghosh]

Lovely pose and eye contact from both the birds. Nice colours. The prey is a bonus. I feel a rectangular framing with some more space on the right, would have strengthened the composition further. Thanks for sharing.

Ok I understand my mistake of cropping....thanks for the comment

[Sandipan Ghosh]

Lovely. I agree with Mrudul that this is an unconventional composition, but it seems to work okay in this case, in my opinion. Is the throat plumage naturally so smooth? Or is noise reduction removing some of the feather details?

In all shot the I cant get the feather details......thank for the comment....but I have done very little noise reduction

[Debasis Bose]

Beautiful composition! It is fun to watch the bee eaters hunting, mud bathing, digging burrows for nesting. Thanks for sharing

[Sandipan Ghosh]

Beautiful composition! It is fun to watch the bee eaters hunting, mud bathing, digging burrows for nesting. Thanks for sharing

thank you very much

[Dheerendra Singh]

Nice composition.very beautiful birds.Tfs

[Shyamala Kumar]

Two in one frame.Great capture. The out spread wings and the captured insect adds to the composition. Thanks for sharing.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Since it is a cropped image, check where exactly is your focus point. The river bank seems to be in focus, and I think the focus is ahead of the bird. Which autofocus point were you using while clicking this?

The light is from opposite side, so the shadow side of the birds are facing you. So there is a difference in exposure between the sand and the birds. It would have been better if you would have been on the opposite side or shooting in late evening. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Sandipan Ghosh]

Nice composition.very beautiful birds.Tfs

thank you very much

[Sandipan Ghosh]

Two in one frame.Great capture. The out spread wings and the captured insect adds to the composition. Thanks for sharing.

thank you very much

[Sandipan Ghosh]

Since it is a cropped image, check where exactly is your focus point. The river bank seems to be in focus, and I think the focus is ahead of the bird. Which autofocus point were you using while clicking this?

The light is from opposite side, so the shadow side of the birds are facing you. So there is a difference in exposure between the sand and the birds. It would have been better if you would have been on the opposite side or shooting in late evening. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

I have selected the the middle zone focus points....The opposite side is not possible to click the birds at eye level due to steep bank.....high exposure of sand is key problem to shoot in daylight...