Fisher in Blue

[Ironwood]

Taken with the Tamron 150-600 on the Nikon D7100.
@600mm, f8, 1/1600th, iso1250.
Both cropped at 50%

[avkomp]

nice pix. forest kingfisher I assume? guess the repaired lens does the biz.
if you could darken the top rhs it would lift the image a bit. you got great contrasting colours around the bird but the bright stuff at the top catches the eye a bit

[Ironwood]

Cheers Stephen. Yes, Forest Kingfisher.
Good call on the brighter section. I did use the highlight slider to reduce it some already, ands as it looked much better than originally, I went with it. But good to get feedback from a fresh set of eyes to know that it needs more.

The Tamron seems to be performing better than it was originally, my keeper rate has improved. And I think the quality of the images is a bit better, the adjustments they did seem to have made a difference.

[seaslug]

Pretty bird, I don't see them often in Tassie but they are here. Need to go bush again I think! (Had to go to Lord Howe for the last KF shots).

I think you did pretty well with it.

[wigz]

Very nice Brad. Good colours with the bird well-placed in the frame. I think the rear view with the head turned works well in these. I agree with Stephen about the bright background in the first image.

[Alan]

Lovely capture. Light probably hasn't been kind to you.

Always hard to get the blacks and whites correctly exposed. I don't know how you'd get detail in the blacks without blowing the whites

[Ironwood]

Thanks for the comments Greg, Alan , and Alan. It would be nice if our sensors could handle another couple of stops of dynamic range, maybe one day

[Jurujoh]

Lovely captures.

Jules

[Ironwood]

Thanks Jules.

[Phoenix]

How sweet. love the colours captured with that beautiful soft pastelly background.
Great bird details too.

[eaglem]

Very nice Blue on this KIngfisher.

[Ironwood]

Thanks Jo, and Eaglem