Pied-billed in Man made light

[dankearl]

f11, iso2000, 1/200, 600mm (300f2.8 w/2x), D610, SB-600 Speedlight.

610_8659bp.jpg (http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=158399&stc=1&d=1452399561)

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Dan, excellent low angle, and you captured a super pose too. I like the droplets on the body, together with the bit of weed on the tail. Good use of flash, as its subtle, and just personal, I would take a bit off the bottom.

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Dan, might be the MBP laptop, but the BKG looks quite posterised????? Not like you if I'm right.

Steve

[Randy Stout]

Dan:

Your grebe is outstanding, with excellent flash use, shooting angle, angle in frame. Well done.

I am seeing the same thing as Steve in the background and would revisit that. I have had occ. problems when posting on the web of jpegs that look great on my computer before being posted, but didn't show well on the web.

Cheers

Randy

[Karl Egressy]

Excellent pose captured, Dan. The water droplets on the body really add interest. Good use of flash.

[gail bisson]

What a great example of flash being done well!
Great POV and beautiful details.
I like the somber color palette.
Gail

[arash_hazeghi]

looks great Dan, love the low angle and details. nice uniform light with flash with excellent color balance.

I see some hints of posterization in the BG on my screen, could be just JPEG compression but it doesn't heart to run another round of NR on it

TFS

[dankearl]

Thanks for the comments. The BG posterization is really from the flash. This was just
an experiment and some things I liked for low light imaging (most of what I do in the NW).
I think using flash as opposed to going with extreme iso has some merit.

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the dark mood, pose, HA, sharpness, composition and excellent use of flash. Well done Dan!