Kingfisher

[rabanito]

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[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Very moody. Nice.

[francois]

Just a bright spot of colors in this a very muted environment.

[rabanito]

Thank you friends. 
As for the spot of colours, I'm starting a crowdfounding to get poor rabanito a 15'000$ zoom. 

[francois]

Thank you friends. 
As for the spot of colours, I'm starting a crowdfounding to get poor rabanito a 15'000$ zoom. 

Excellent idea but by the time it'll take, the kingfisher will be long gone!

[rabanito]

Excellent idea but by the time it'll take, the kingfisher will be long gone!

Ha-ha.
 

[brandtb]

This shot and the other you posted have way to much background for the subject. All this background is "beyond context" - it doesn't support the "subject" - it just overwhelms the frame with non-information. Longer zoom lens would be something to look into for this ideally...at the very least in the 400mm range. Or just crop into it - since it was shot with a D810 you have a decent file size - assuming it wasn't cropped already.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

This shot and the other you posted have way to much background for the subject. All this background is "beyond context" - it doesn't support the "subject" - it just overwhelms the frame with non-information...

I respectfully disagree.

The whole point of the shot is the speck of color against the muted background, juxtapositioning of not only color, but size too. Plus a lot of metaphorical meanings: live vs. dead, small vs. large, surprise of the unexpected, etc.

[RSL]

+1

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I respectfully disagree.

The whole point of the shot is the speck of color against the muted background, juxtapositioning of not only color, but size too. Plus a lot of metaphorical meanings: live vs. dead, small vs. large, surprise of the unexpected, etc.

Thank you for putting it so well, Slobodan. That is just what I was thinking when I read Brandt's post.

[rabanito]

Thank you for your comments, friends.
I agree with Slobodan, that was more or less my intention. Yet he put it well in words.

As for the picture, Brandt is right (BTW How can you telll it was with a D810?)
300mm 1/400 sec at f/6.3 ISO 400 Hand-held
The image was cropped from 7360x4592 to 3255x2172 (out of necessity)
I do crop usually a little here and there but very seldom that much