King Fishers Everywhere !!!! pic heavy..

dannylightning · Oct 9, 2015

today was the worst lighting ever, horrible day for photography but huge a score today anyways. i have never spent so much time on lightroom.

i just went back and added some noise reduction to 4-5-6-7 and now they look much better but ill just leave the original ones here. too may photos posted to change them out

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JacaRanda · Oct 9, 2015

Nice Danny. You got off a lot of shots for a bird that is so skittish.
Have you played with the Dehaze slider in LR?
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dannylightning · Oct 9, 2015

thanks. i never though i would find a king fisher, at first they would come and go come and go on these trees that were really far out. finally a couple of them came close and just set in the dead trees looking for something to eat.

i used the dehaze slider on these, crank it up too high and the images started to look really dark and contrasty. basically i did what i could to pull out the most detail in the birds. i would have liked to have darkened some of them up but than the birds just lost detail. so i guess it is what it is.

its really overcast and the lighting was very bad. but i got what i got what i could and did my best to make it look good.

JacaRanda · Oct 9, 2015

Yup - there are days where I get back home and say 'At least I got out, smelled the roses, relaxed, and got some exercise'.

dannylightning · Oct 9, 2015

some of them turned out pretty descent i think. it was fun to get out. i got a few good shots of a great blue heron, a green heron and some wood ducks. i just cant seem to like the photos of the wood ducks, not sure why either..

NancyMoranG · Oct 9, 2015

Wow, those are great! What a find.

Hunter58 · Oct 9, 2015

Nice set. You had a real cooperative male Kingfisher.

DarkShadow · Oct 9, 2015

Nice Shots,Nice Bird.

dannylightning · Oct 10, 2015

Thanks, this is the first time i have seen a king fisher, a guy that was there was saying the king fisher is there all the time. i might go back today and hope i see him..

there were 2 or 3 of them, my friend got a photo of 2 of them flying in the same shot right before we left.

Woodsman · Oct 10, 2015

Great shots. I have been trying for years to get a decent shot of one. They are not too common here and usually they take off quickly when I do see one.

dannylightning · Oct 10, 2015

i had never saw one before. my friend says come quick there is a king fisher. he was way out on top of a dead tree. and i said well at least i can get a photo of the outline of a king fisher which i did. about 30 min later he flew over near us, did some fishing and stayed pretty close for a good 30-40 min or so. than the other ones were flying back and forth for a while. i was pretty excited...

here are the photos from when i fist saw him.. before light room it was just a bright white washed out background and a black outline of the bird. than i cropped the photo like crazy and was able to dial in some detail..