CHBE

Gallery: AvianPosted March 12, 201485 views12 comments

This is a photo of a Chestnut-headed Bee-eater taken in Langkawi, Malaysia. (February 2014). Another beautiful bird, full of personality, perfect hunter with agility and focus.

Photo was edited and cropped in Adobe Photoshop.

Canon EOS 7D
EF400mm f/5.6L USM
f/9.0
1/2500
iso 1000

Larger image

http://natureshues.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/chbe01.jpg

Photoblog site:

http://www.everything-nature.com

Comments

12 comments

Comment posted by Rick Cloran on March 12, 2014 at 10:44 AM

Another beauty. The colors in these birds are a pleasure to study. I might take a little off the left to pull it more out of the center. Nice job.

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Comment posted by John Jeevaratnam on March 12, 2014 at 1:33 PM

Thank you Rick, they are fun to watch and track with the camera. Certainly gives me plenty to practice with. It is a science to study these colors, I prefer being out in the field. I do the editing and finishing myself.

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Comment posted by Jerry Austin on March 12, 2014 at 10:10 PM

I love these guys. The small image makes it difficult to do an in depth critique. However, I like what I see.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on March 12, 2014 at 10:24 PM

Nice simple composition and a good head turn, John.

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Comment posted by John Jeevaratnam on March 12, 2014 at 11:04 PM

Thank you Jerry,

You can see the larger image at:

http://natureshues.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/chestnutheadedbeeeater01.jpg

Thank you Dennis, my time was limited to get a better shot.

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on March 13, 2014 at 2:21 AM

John,

Beeaters are all wonderfully coloured and this is no exception.

Wonderful image

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Comment posted by John Jeevaratnam on March 13, 2014 at 6:06 AM

Thank you Ken, my first encounter photographing them. Still amazed at how consistently they catch a bee, butterfly/moth or a dragon fly in mid air. The colors make them neat to photograph.

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Comment posted by Simon Bennett on March 13, 2014 at 1:34 PM

Beautiful bird well captured.

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on March 13, 2014 at 8:11 PM

Hi John,
This is a nice clean look at this beautiful species. I have to question the techs here. There's too much noise in the bg and the image quality doesn't look great, the 7D doesn't perform very well over iso 500 and you had plenty of light to drop the iso down.

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Comment posted by John Jeevaratnam on March 14, 2014 at 1:28 AM

Thank you Simon.

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Comment posted by John Jeevaratnam on March 14, 2014 at 1:46 AM

Nate, Well I was attempting to capture the bird with a better background so I lowered the f-stop. My intention was to capture the bird at a lower level to the ground in some dried bushes with some nice light. This bird however kept flying from one end to another on some high branches. I also was looking to capture the bird flying and catching its food, so I increased my speed. The iso was increased to compensate for the darker image from a lower f stop. Normally I set the camera in RAW mode and then shoot photos at a set exposure. I then do the post edits in Adobe Lightroom.

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Comment posted by John Jeevaratnam on March 19, 2014 at 9:29 AM

re-posted another larger version to the original posting. Slight head tilt from the smaller version.

http://natureshues.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/chbe01.jpg

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