African sacred ibis in the air

[Gianluca Molina]

I sincerely hope that this can be considered the height of the forum.
If this is not enough quality to me "relegates" forum ETL :t3


Taking about a year ago, freehand.


It is a Sacred Ibis, now very common in my area

Light crop compositional


Processing with Canon DPP and GIMP

I hope you enjoy it.

Canon EOS 1D Mark IIn + Canon 300 USM L f/4 + Kenko DGX extender 1,4

420mm focal
1/2000 sec.
f/5,6
ISO250
free hand

[Raybel Robles]

Great unique looking bird! I like the how the blue set off the bird nicely. Composition wise the bird is too close to the left side of the frame. I would add a bit more canvas behind and below the bird a bit.

[Randy Stout]

Molina:

Very interesting markings on the head. Nice angle in the frame.

Agree with Raybel about too tight to frame edge.

If you haven't done so, I would try to do some shadow recovering to bring up the under wing exposure a bit. In fact, I would consider increasing the overall exposure about .25 of a stop, and then adjust the shadows to taste.

Look forward to more.

Cheers

Randy

[shane shacaluga]

Good image

Gianluca sent me the raw yesterday for this one whilst we we discussing the merits of the ETL and the AVIAN forum

This is my repost of the same image

Using ACR to convert the raw then did some work on the underwing shadows, cloned out the dark shadowline on the lower breast and used a bit of Linear Burn on the highlights

USM for web

[Randy Stout]

Nice improvement Shane. Addressed the main issues of the OP.

Cheers

Randy

[Ron Conlon]

The repost does justice to this beautiful shot and bird. Good work.

[Gianluca Molina]

Thank you again shane (http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/member.php/11759-shane-shacaluga) but ... I prefer the image that shows the shadow of the sun under the wing of the bird ... personal tastes :t3

[Sandy Witvoet]

Beautiful image. I prefer Shane's repost a bit more, which pulls out some nice underwing details and lets us experience the whole bird.

[Gianluca Molina]

de gustibus non disputandum est :t3