Female UK Kingfisher.

Well worth the effort...........up at 4am,70minute drive,15minute hike,nettle stings,thorn scratches,slide down an embankment on my backside ending knee deep in water.Then on finding a possible perching place had to build a hide out of branches,coffee ran out,no brekky or lunch.Did i enjoy it ? you bet, every minute.

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Awesome!! Stunning, Outstanding, Great captures.

All of the above!!

Good effort, have you PP'd the black background in, I assume you have?

WOW super shots. Colors and detail are spot on, well done.

Very nice series! I really like the BG and how it makes the subject pop off the screen! Well done.

Thanks for the comments guys,
Used lightroom.........to crop, + temp, - exposure, sharpened and export.
The background was pretty dark with both banks lined with trees overhanging the river.Need to get exposure better next time.
Original of No5 below..... resized and exported as JPG in lightroom.

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Beautiful shots and I like the dark background.

Cheers Mitch,
the dark background is a little different and does make her stand out,just need to improve on the exposure a touch,throat area is blown a bit for me.Suppose i`ll have to go and try again !

The 1st shot is pretty soft. 2,3 and 5 are real keepers though.

That sounds like an excuse for getting out to me.

Yep you`r right Mitch,
in the morning me thinks....sod the ironing,washing,cleani​ng and tidying the garden, more important things to do. God help me at 18.00 hrs when the boss come in,she ain`t speaking to me now cos i`v`e been out most of the day while she has been hard at it.You got to get your priorities right though have`nt you !

Absolutely. Kingfisher photography comes first.

What camera and lens, Carlton?

Personally I don't think LR does a very good job in bringing out fine detail.

Didn't know it killed Exif as well..!

aligater wrote in post #3691363
Well worth the effort...........up at 4am,70minute drive,15minute hike,nettle stings,thorn scratches,slide down an embankment on my backside ending knee deep in water.Then on finding a possible perching place had to build a hide out of branches,coffee ran out,no brekky or lunch.Did i enjoy it ? you bet, every minute.

Sounds like my kind of fun!

BTW Lightroom doesn't kill EXIF (I use it and all my EXIF is intact)...the way you save for web can kill it though...

Hi Keith,
5D,400 f2.8 + 1.4ex. EXIF attached to the images on Pbase,i`ll have to look at how i have been saving them.