Anhinga... Breeding Plumage

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image at the rookery in the alligator breeding pond in Gatorland, Orlando, Florida. I reworked the image recently with the new tools in upgrades to Lightroom and Photoshop.

Nikon D500
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED image captured at 400mm
1/1000 F/8 Matrix Metering EV +1/3 ISO 900 Auto 1 WB, camera supported by a monopod
Post processed in Lightroom Classic CC, Photoshop CC 2019 and Neat Image for noise reduction
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Geoffrey Montagu]

What an elegant beauty you've captured here, Joe. Great pose and head turn, with nice feather detail. Like the pinkish feathers on the head. Couldn't ask for a better BG.

Geoffrey




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[greg cowle]

Never seen one like this - very nice.

[Frank Schauf]

A very elegant portrait.

[John Mack]

Light looks harsh but you have handled it very well. Great pose with a great background.

[William Dickson]

Looking good Joe..Great pose, HA and colours on the bird. Well captured.

Will

[Dorian Anderson]

Super exposure on those blacks, and great detail throughout. This is a really nice image, Joseph.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Jo this is a really excellent shot, the plumage is super, purely a consideration to lifting the blacks a tiny bit.
One thing that will help significantly is to make a selection of the bill then make a curves adjustment layer with Luminosity and gradually pull down the highlights - just watch the detail reveal!

[Steve Kaluski]

Nice one Joe, good to revisit old files occasionally with updated Software, goes to show how good the original capture was.

TFS
Steve

[Arthur Morris]

I like everything about this one but the salt-encrusted bill.

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