Kingfishers

A trip to WWT Arundel paid off the other week, light was poor and harsh, All K3iii + 150 - 450 handheld, back next year for another attempt

I am envious as I have never seen a Kingfisher when I had a camera on me.

The third is The stand out one for me due to the colours. I think 1+2 could be easily improved with some selective dodging and burning.

Cracking set and agree with Peter, number 3 for me.

I was at Arundel a few weeks back too, there are two pairs apparently. I took some at the Sand Martin Hide and unfortunately the windows were screwed shut (for the Sand Martin's benefit) so I had an extra layer of smudged glass. In spite of this, I managed a few shots of a singular bird and only when I was walking back to the car to get out before the gates close (I saw the bird at 1600! gates were closing at 1630!! 1630!!) - so time was short.

Lovely images, but I can't share mine as I was using my other system..

I know, the windows were screwed shut for the benefit of the KF's this time

The first image was shot from the left-hand side of the hide, about 45 deg to the fairly dirty glass.

I was first in the hide on the 2nd attempt so had choice of position.

Thanks Peter, I have already dialed out some highlights on the branch and fish and lifted shadows particularly on the KF

I would go a bit further Chris, like this......

Thanks Peter, I'll have another go, I'm not keen on pushing my images to far, prefer more natural shots but will certainly relook at them

Thank you

Nice shooting Chris - I know what you mean about keeping the look as natural as possible, but quite a lot can be "pulled out" from some shots and still look quite natural