Blue-tailed Bee-eater

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

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.

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?

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Originally Posted by 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.

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

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Originally Posted by 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?

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

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

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Originally Posted by Debasis Bose

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

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thank you very much

Nice composition.very beautiful birds.Tfs

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

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

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Originally Posted by Dheerendra Singh

Nice composition.very beautiful birds.Tfs

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thank you very much

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Originally Posted by Shyamala Kumar

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

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thank you very much

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Originally Posted by 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

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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...