Carmine Beeeater

[Jan Fourie]

Taken at Chobe River,Botswana
Camera:Canon 1 D mark 1V
Lens :Canon 500mm f4
ISO : 200
SS : 1/800
F/5.6

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Jan, very nice. Great color, BG, light and sharpness. I like the shallow DOF as well. good enough to get perch, feet, breast and the bill tip sharp. Terrific stuff.

I feel it a bit tight at the top. If you do those sort of things, then some eye-doctoring will improve it a lot. Way too many catchlights, I think.

[Pieter de Waal]

Hi Jan, Lovely image with nice colours and exposure on those reds which are allways tricky. Agree with Kaustubh on the eye and would have liked slightly more of a head turn.

[Tim Zurowski]

A nice clean image with an appealing pose and smooth BG. I would prefer to see a nicer more interesting perch, if this was a setup at all.

[Chris van Rooyen]

Nice and clean image Jan!

[RAM MALLYA]

Superb Colors here with a clean BG .