RE: IMG: Belted Kingfisher

  • From: Gary Pinkerton <gpinkcp@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:32:41 -0600

Love this guy Doug; Kingfishers are one of my favorite critters and you've done 
justice to him/her.
There's a few around these parts, but I've never been anywhere near close 
enough for a shot.
Excellent, sigh, as always.
GaryP
 
 
> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:15:29 -0800> From: wildlightphoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> To: lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> Subject: IMG: Belted Kingfisher> > The belted Kingfisher is notoriously 
> difficult to get close to. I used a blind for this photo, and made liberal 
> use of Photoshop's cropping tools.> > Now that I know where the bird's 
> favorite perches are I can set up the blind closer to teh perch, and with a 
> better background. For now, this is what I've got:> > 
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/alcedinidae/beki03.html> > technical 
> stuff: R8/DMR @ISO 400> 280mm f/4 APO with 1.4x APO-Extender-R> tripod & 
> blind> > All comments welcome.> > > Doug Herr> Sacramento> 
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com> > > > 
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