Purple Gallinule in the Open

[Fabs Forns]

From our Everglades workshop last month, this one was available for pictures for a long while, playing around on the canal at Anhinga Trail. Cropped for composition, burn and blur tools used on the BG.

Date: 1/18/09
Time: 9:15:26 AM
Model: NIKON D3
Firmware: Ver.1.11
Frame #: 1402
Lens (mm): 500 (300/2.8 plus 1.4X) hand held
ISO: 800
Aperture: 5.6
Shutter: 1/1000
Exp. Comp.: 0.0
Flash Comp.:
Program: Manual
Focus Mode: AF-C
White Bal.: AUTO
ICC Profile: sRGB Profile
Contrast:

[Marina Scarr]

This species for me is the bomb, and your picture has surely done it justice. You did a great job on the BG b/c the bird looks completely separated from it yet it shows the habitat. The leg lift adds a lot too.

[Ramon M. Casares]

Comp and pose are great Fabs, lovely BG/ambient, I would just try to lighten the shadows from the tip of the perch. Congratualitons!!!

[Arthur Morris]

Lovely bird, toes, head angle, colors, and image. The only thing that bugs me is the faint, angled yellow line upper left quarter.

[James Salywoda]

Such a beautiful bird Fabs excellent angle, detail and colors.

[ldelacruz]

What amazing detail and exposure!