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SONY 7IV
SONY 200-600
ISO 1600
1/2500
f8
DXO noise reduction
Description
spring time and the bee-eaters are busy finding food for the females before mating
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Wonderful double capture Avi. Great to get both birds sharp and dragonflies in both beaks. Complimentary background too. Love the colors in birds, insects, and background. Well done.
This is gorgeous, Avi. I was going to suggest placing the birds a bit higher in the frame, but I’d hate to lose any of the purple flowers in the background to do it and I don’t think it would be enough of an improvement to justify that. The only nit I can see is the slightly paler area above the head of the left bird. If you can manage a sufficiently delicate selection around the crown of that bird, I could see bringing that area down a trifle.
Hi, Avi - a really exceptional image! Everything is tack-sharp, the colours are marvelous, and the BG wonderful. And TWO, both with Prey ? yikes!
Congrats on a great EP! Glad you’re back!
Pretty good? Much more than that, Avi. Two beautiful birds showing excellent detail against a pleasing and complementary background. And they both have bugs! Well deserved EP.
Well, what is there to add to all the above praise? Nothing, I would say. The photo is nice as is to me, the light area around the left one’s head doesn’t even bother me even when pointed out. Congrats on this photo and you EP!
Grt, Ingrid.
This is sensational Avi!!! I love the colors of both birds and the gorgeous blurred out background and the fact that you have head turns that show off the dragonflies in both of their beaks is just simply amazing. Only nit that I see is maybe burn where the branch is coming out of the left side of the frame. It’s quite a bit brighter there than anywhere else on the branch. Oh, and that one little nit from @Dennis_Plank if you can tackle it without doing damage to the birds head feathers. Bravo! Great to see you posting again.
