Brown Pelican

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image early last Thursday morning at Ft. Desoto County Park in Pinellas County, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED HH
1/2500 F/5.6 Highlight Weighted Metering EV 0 ISO 180 Auto 1 WB, image captured at 400mm
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2020 and Neat Image for noise reduction when needed
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Dorian Anderson]

The lighting is really nice, and you avoided shadows altogether - so that's good. However, the bird is a bit high to get direct eye contact, and the intersecting beak and wing aren't ideal. The bird also looks soft; I;m not sure if that results from a focusing issue or heavy crop.

[John Mack]

The light looks nice. But going to have to agree the bird does look soft here.

[Arthur Morris]

EXP is good as it the image design. Agree with the sharpness issues mentioned above. In addition, the bird has already turned away from you. Lastly, in a perfect world the near wing would have been fully extended.

I will be at DeSoto three times before the end of OCT for 3-4 days each visit ...

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