{"id":166179,"date":"2025-01-08T06:06:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T13:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=166179"},"modified":"2025-01-08T07:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T14:31:13","slug":"belted-kingfisher-in-a-steep-dive-from-a-frosty-perch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/08\/belted-kingfisher-in-a-steep-dive-from-a-frosty-perch\/","title":{"rendered":"Belted Kingfisher In A Steep Dive From A Frosty Perch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blue on blue (apologies for the Bobby Vinton earworm<\/a><\/span><\/span>).<\/p>\n

Cold snowy settings can look blue. Especially in low light. Three days ago those were the conditions when I found a female Belted Kingfisher fishing from a high perch in the early morning. She wasn’t particularly close and light was so low I almost didn’t even try to get any shots of her. But in the end I cranked up my ISO to get more shutter speed and concentrated on getting diving shots.<\/p>\n

I got several but I liked this one best, even though it’s a little… unusual.<\/p>\n

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1,2500, f\/5.6, ISO 3200, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Her dive was unusually steep, which gave me a flight posture I like. She’s kind of small in the frame but she’s sharp and I have light in her eye, despite the low light. Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the photo is how the lighting conditions turned everything blue – which may not appeal to everyone. But I kind of like it so, typical of me, I made no color adjustments while I was processing the photo.<\/p>\n

Then there’s a little thing that I really like. Notice how we can tell exactly where she’d been perched on the twig at upper left because her presence there had knocked all the frost off the twig at that spot. There’s frost above that spot and below it, but not where she’d been perched.<\/p>\n

You know me and the “little things” in my photos.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Blue on blue.<\/p>\n

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