Tel,
You are getting too good at this, this is one heck of a cracking image. I personally wouldn't be able to tell that those details were added during postprocessing . Particularly the way you managed to have its beak open from the original one , love this image.
Thank you so much for showing it. I get a warm glow in my heart when i look at it knowing that I had a bit of hand in this image but you definitely brought all the enhancement to it, Good one, and keep the good work Tel.

Fingers crossed more kingfishers to come. Been hunting for some again

Gwyn
what a fantastic way of entertaining with sheep . Loved the clip
thanks for sharing
Amin

Well spotted Martin

Me and my clumsy postprocessing which I am still learning the ropes.
But your idea about colourted backgrounds seem to make a lot of sense, would love to give it a try. tell me more about this please, how do I get some of those, and what exactly are they? Please remember I am a total newbie and sometimes the most basic stuff still is strange to me . But I do learn fast .
Are these something that I can just order and they are used as backgrounds when I want to shoot macro? They would come handy if there are things like that to make my life easy. At the moment I juggle with things that I pick up here and there and try to cover the backgrounds but then they all end up not being perfect and I have to then make more disastrous mistakes while posprocessing .


Stefan,

Thanks for those links about the noise reduction, I am very very keen on giving it a go. At the moment I am starting to grow a phobia about any iso setting that is more than 100 , so knowing that I can control it at a later stage if push comes to shove would be a really blessing .
From those two which one would you recommend?

Thanks to everyone for all your comments about the two shots. I really really appreciate your time and input, it all goes a long way in helping me improve my skills which at the moment are still at quite an early stage.
many thanks again

Amin

if you fancy company when you go shooting birds in the reservoir one of these days drop me a line and we can go together .
And you can have a go and play with the lovely DA*300 as well,
am always keen on exploring sorroundings for wildlife.

Regards

Amin

Tel,
That is stunning . I love the frame around it and particularly that tail tip that is still visible under the branch, it just enhances it more visually .
Go on Tel, do the same with this one also, like what you did with the other kingfisher on the flickr .

I have been looking forward to check the new images you put up there for a while now, so I will head up there.
thanks again and I will dl it for my records and see if I can match the postprocessing

Spider , talk about beginner's luck hein?

Yes they were taken with the 100mm macro.
And you are right about the top one of the orchid. Those white bits really spoil it a little. Well, this is a big lesson for me to plan properly and try to shoot thinking about how to crop them and edit. I am still in the very basic stage where I just look, focus and shoot, rather than thinking properly on how to crop, frame etc. But now I am getting it and hope to start taking all those aspects into consideration before shooting. And this was a macro so had all the time in the world to prepare it all, no excuse at all .
Next time

Thanks again for your input shim,

Amin

Personally I I also like the tulip Tel . It must be the vibrant colours that make it more outstanding. So far I think its one of my best macro shots, so I think I have started making small improvement steps ahhh finally the frustration fading away

And a go at turning this macro into an abstract, someone had suggested this about a tulip shot I had so here it is again

When it comes to composition, framing, cropping, editing postprocessing etc (gosh what a list and its not complete even ha ) I am a total disaster, so I have decided to dive into it and try to improve.
So, suggestions, advice and any help is greatly appreciated.
Had a go again at this shot I had uploaded sometime ago, I think, so please comments are greatly sought.
Many thanks




Amin