Roseate Spoonbill

[Joseph Przybyla]

Image captured along the west shore of Lake Parker in Lakeland, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 500mm F/5.6 VR AF-S ED PF, Handheld
1/2000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 280 Auto 1 WB, image captured at 500mm (750mm 35mm Equivalent)
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2021 and Topaz Denoise AI
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Arthur Morris]

Nice raised wing pose with the bird angling towards you. The underwing coverts look a bit muddy ... You might wish to lighten the iris. All in all, well done.

with love, artie

[Dorian Anderson]

A really striking image with the cracking pink! Fully raised wings are great, and the head angle is perfect. The muted light absolved you of all shadows, so that's great too. Only issue I see is the overall image quality; the details are decent but not great. I really like to see the scales on the feet, and we don't have them here.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Artie and Dorian, thank you for viewing and commenting. I worked on improving the under wing colors and used Topaz Sharpen AI to sharpen the image. What do you think?

[John Mack]

Works well high key. I do like the repost better.

[Jonathan Ashton]

I like the pose and colours, it looks a tad grainy - was it a large crop or perhaps a little underexposed? IQ may improve with a 1600px image???