Australian Pied Oystercatcher

[Colin Driscoll]

1DXII 600mm F/4L III 1.4x III 840mm HH
1/2500 f8 iso800 -0.3ev
Slight crop, S&H, tidy up catch light, light sharpen PS2019
Reds are how they are- brilliant.

[Moe Richard]

Really pleasing color and water in this image good job on getting accurate saturation on the red tones of this image.

[gail bisson]

The low POV and HA of the OC are very nice.
I really like how clear the water is and that I can see the bottom and the feet.
Just wish for softer light. It has made the blacks quite shiny and the whites a bit hot on the flank.
Gail

[dankearl]

Nice pose and head turn, you lost detail in the blacks for whatever reason.
Colors look good.

[annmpacheco]

Hi Colin, very pleasing image but it appears something may have gone a miss, looks like NR flattened detail throughout the bird? Did you select the BG ony or include the bird? Maybe something else?

[Colin Driscoll]

Thanks for the comments. Regarding quality, I must still be doing something wrong in preparing the image for posting.
The difference is obvious when I compare the final 16-bit TIFF with the jpeg for posting.
There is quite a loss of fine detail which is why it could look like I have used NR on the bird, which of course I didn't.
Steps are in PS2019: from the 16-bit TIFF export/save for web and devices | set longest side to 1500 | optimize to file size 500 kb | save.