Eurasian Kingfisher

[Supreet Sahoo]

A common KF shot at lotus pond in Hyd. The guy was almost inside a bush with almost no light and it was around 6 in the evening.
Exif : Tv 1/50 Av7.1 Metering Mode Evaluative Metering ISO 320 cropped by 30%

[Bhargava Srivari]

Good that you used a narrow aperture- the light was quite low when we found him. Nice composition. All the same, I'd like a slight boost in saturaion/vibrance.

tfs

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice head turn and eye contact. You could have increased the ISO further for more shutter speed. Wish the branch was not directly behind, but cant help that. It is good there were no branches infront. Did yo do any noise reductions? Thanks for sharing.

[Dr. Kalpamoi Kakati]

Nice image.Have you done any noise reduction? some details are lost.It will be nice if you can mention the equipments used for this image.TFS

[Supreet Sahoo]

Yes Dr. I ran the image through neat image as it was shot after 6 and this was a crop. I used a Canon 7D with a 300 F4 which i forgot to mention in the exif.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Neat image for entire image?

There is loss of details on the bird. There is always a trade off between noise and details. I would prefer to retain details.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi