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<\/a><\/p>\n1\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\nbut he missed it and all he could do was…<\/p>\n
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1\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\nwatch\u00a0as it fell back into the water below and most likely swam away. This was one pissed-off kingfisher as evidenced by his repeated and very loud rattle calls in reaction to the loss.<\/p>\n
He had fish slime and pond scum all over his bill so once he recovered from losing the fish his next concern was to get rid of\u00a0that mess so he…<\/p>\n
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1\/4000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\nshook his head violently and the stuff went flying. I’ve cropped the image to include as much of the flying debris as practical but there was even more of it than this.<\/p>\n
At first I wasn’t going to include this shot because the bird is quite soft but it illustrates something unfortunate\u00a0that can and often does happen to bird photographers trying to capture fast action. If you look carefully at the image you can see that my focus point grabbed on to the twig behind the kingfisher’s left wing. That made the twig sharp and the bird soft because my depth of field is very shallow at\u00a0this\u00a0focal length. In the previous four photos the exact\u00a0opposite is true.<\/p>\n
In bird photography “stuff” happens, especially when the action is fast.<\/p>\n
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