River Kingfisher

[Bhargava Srivari]

According to Wikipedia, the common kingfisher is actually the eurasian kingfisher or river kingfisher. Though some of us also call it small blue kingfisher, the name is confined to India and the small blue variety is actually the cerulian kingfisher which is found only in Indinesia :)
canon EOS 60D, canon 100-400 L IS USM, july'11- tadoba andheri tiger reserve.
f5.6, ISO 800, EV +0.3, 1/160sec, 400mm, eval metering, cropped heavily

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice perch and eye contact. Is this from the same series you posted earlier? Reducing the sharpening would be good. Thanks for sharing the information.

[Suraj Sreedhar]

Nice image.Did you do any pp for background.

Thanks for sharing .:)

[Bhargava Srivari]

Mrudul,

This is from the same series in which I had posted a couple of images with head turn a few weeks ago. I was going thorugh the images from tadoba and found this interesting, so decided to post :)

Suraj,

No work on the BG here. On indiawilds, the general practice is to mention any special processing done, and I always stick to that. So, if nothing's been mentioned, you could take it that it was just the normal processing of levels/curves, brightness/contrast/saturation, sharpness, and noise reduction once in a while. :)

Cheers