White Ibis

[Joseph Przybyla]

Early morning, north lagoon Ft. Desoto, White Ibis feeding. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D7000
Nikon 70-300mm F/4.5-5.6 VR AF-S ED shot at 125mm (187mm FFE)
1/500 F/8 Matrix Metering -1 EV ISO 110 AWB
Post processed in Lightroom 6 and Photoshop Elements 10
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Randy Stout]

Joe:
I like the repeating poses, with no merges, and the center guy with just a bit of a different pose.

The spacing of the birds gives a nice sense of depth.

Pity the water wasn't a bit cleaner, to really perk up the reflections

Cheers

Randy

[keith mitchell]

Joe I always think of calm flat water when thinking about Florida but the slightly broken reflections are fine, agree with Randy you have got these birds very nicely spaced, nice work.

Keith.

[Karl Egressy]

Nice composition, Joe. I like that you can see the eye of all the birds, except one.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

I, too, like the comp lots Joe. Well done!
Good contrast between birds and BG as well.
A lower angle would've been smashing IMO!
But, you did the best here given the setting.
TFS!

[Joseph Przybyla]

Thanks everyone for viewing and commenting, very much appreciated.

Akos, regarding being lower in capturing this image... if I went lower the front bird would be blocking two in the back. I wanted all of the birds showing, so this was a low as possible for that to happen. Thank you for your comment and suggestion.

[John Robinson]

Good reasoning behind the shooting angle. Well composed shot.
Like it
JohnR

[dankearl]

Getting them all sharp is a big plus. Nice water would have put this over the top....

[Randy Stout]

Joe:

If circumstances allowed, moving to your right, and then shooting from a lower angle would have prevented a merge, but helped soften the effect of the debris in the water a bit. But, the comp. would have been subtly different, so perhaps this is the best available.

Cheers

Randy