Spoonbill in Flight

[Ted Scalzo]

Image created at Green Cay, Delray Beach about six Spoonbills were about in the preserve.
Day after Christmas. This is my first post on this wonderful new site. I look forward to a wonderful learning experience and thank Fabs and Al for the invitation to join.
This was taken with a Canon 40 D
300 2.8 IS
7.1 1/1000 ISO 200
Manual Mode Hand held

[Alfred Forns]

Big Welcome Ted !!!!! My favorite view of a spoon Top bankings are beautiful Excellent feather detail and light !!!!

[Fabs Forns]

Great top view of the juvenile, Ted.

It was a very pleasant surprise running into you and Grace at Wako. Some things are meant to happen :)

I'm not crazy about the background and burning would only increase the contrast. Maybe applying a bit of gausian blur?

Anyway, to were lucky to get that bird to display for you, I have only seen them in the distance...

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Welcome Ted to BPN. It is great to have you her. You did a fabulous job on focusing on this flight image especially with so much vegetation in the background and I too always love to see the topside on a flight shot. Excellent detail and exposure as well.

[Jim Neiger]

HI Ted,

Nice shot of this young spoonie. I'm a sucker for dorsal view flight shots, particularly ones like this with great feather detail. I met Grace when I was in Long Island in October.

[Jody Melanson]

Welcome aboard Ted and Happy New Year to you and yours! Lovely topside view of this cool looking bird.

[D. Robert Franz]

Great image. Love the angle. Only nit is that you had some tough light to work with...

[Maxis Gamez]

Great image, looks a little contrasty but nothing to worry about.

[Arthur Morris]

Hi Tom, Welcome. You have made a sharp image of a cool pose, but the image has many problems. With the light coming from the left and a little behind the bird (I think) the feet, the tail, and parts of the head are in shadow. The bird's head is turned a bit away from you and this compounds the light-angle problems. The dried sections of light-brown vegetation in the background are distracting.

When working in relatively harsh light, you need to be right on the light angle with the sun directly behind you or problems with mega-contrast are inevitable.

later and love, artie