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Posted: Thu Jan 3rd, 2019 10:33
 
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 No I just told the camera to breath deeply and hold it's breath. No underwater kit required.Same lens used was as for all the pixs so you tell me how it was done? The Kingfisher catches the fish in just over a second fom departing the perch and ariving back to eat it's catch.



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 It is using an aquarium on a bird table just above water level or on the bank?

The photographer is in the hide so can see the branch and the aquarium with the same lens and just has to focus on the fish in the aquarium and wait.



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 My favourite is the 614...lovely composition, perfect exposure and focus, fish looking other way (so as not to distract Robert lol). Excellent work.

Sorry, don't like 615. :hardhat::diggingahole:

Looks too contrived.

The light pond bed material makes it look like a fish tank and the bubbles obscure the birds 'face'.

I will leave the room now.



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 jk wrote:
It is using an aquarium on a bird table just above water level or on the bank?

The photographer is in the hide so can see the branch and the aquarium with the same lens and just has to focus on the fish in the aquarium and wait.


I have often thought of building one of these in the garden...

https://www.naturettl.com/build-bird-reflection-pool/



.....but I need to dig out a big hole for the sunken hide. And I suspect if I dug out a big hole in my wife's garden she would fill it in while I was in there.:lol:



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 jk wrote:
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Interesting thought Eric.

Doing underwater photography is similar to bird photography except you have the added limitation of needing to manage your air and buoyancy. Initially I wanted to fill the frame with the subject either in the initial shot or by cropping. Eventually I decidedthis response resulted in a 'stamp collection' style of photography. Now I look for the fish to be against a good background with good lighting. This tends to result in a 1/3 ratio of subject/background.

We were given a 55" tv just before Christmas by a friend (long story). I've resisted going that big because when the newscasters come on, their heads were normal size (as if they were sitting across the room from me) so I didn't pay much attention to them. But now they are bigger, I feel compelled to listen to them despite the rubbish they are reporting. It's weird.

AND.... all the poor make up, sagging skin, wrinkles and pimples are so much more evident. I can even see NOISE on the images :lol::lol:

Mary Nightingale (as it's a bird topic) has a turkey neck hanging down and my wife's ski jumping toy boy hero's have all got acne and freckles. It destroys our fantasies. :lol:

I think there's a lot to be said for being small and unobtrusive. :lol:

But seriously I am going to give my subjects a bit more air. Maybe backing off the cropping won't mean as much noise reduction.o.O

I have 42" screen in Spain and a 38" here in UK in a smaller room.
I find that more than enough. I cant see the need or desire for massive screens. To each his/her own!

It was FREE! :lol:



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 JK is no fool!



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 In most cases I tend to try and keep some of the environment in the picture. Tight shots are good as a study.
 




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 Robert wrote:
I posted a reply about the previous Kingfisher photo, but during editing I thought I had double posted ti but in correcting that I seem to have deleted it, I can't seem to reinstate it so I am calling it quits, I don't have the energy to retype it all even if I could remember what I said.

I do remember that I thought the fish became the subject rather than the bird, and that the moss on the perch was for me too sharp and became a visual distraction.

I did repost Grahams Kingfisher to save flipping back and forth to view it during the discussion.

Now I think this one is right, it tells the story of the Kingfisher on a branch by a pond/river where you find that type of branch and with a fish it's food.
 




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 blackfox wrote:
just seen a sigma 150-600 C for £524 ex cat return looks as new , very tempted

Go for it Jeff, you know you want it. :lol::lol:
 




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 Graham Whistler wrote:
This is what he did under water!

Great shot Graham.
 

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