Saddle-Billed Stork (Juvenile)

[Ken Watkins]

Taken in Rhino Safari Camp, Matusadona, Zimbabwe, 13th June 2009

EOS 1D MkIII

500mm F 4 IS hand-held

F6.3, ISO 400, 1/3200

[Kiran Poonacha]

Loved this Ken, The Light is great, good pose, very colourful bird, the grass shows the habitat well. only thing I would suggest is to clone out the Black line in the BG.. still a lovely one... Congrats..

[Harshad Barve]

I ditto Kiran her , nice bird , lovely Image
TFS

[Mital Patel]

nice image Ken.. to me this is bit softer image. bit of contrast and 1 fstop darker would have been good to me..

[Raymond Barlow]

very nice shot, neat looking bird! I agree, the black line in the bg should be cloned out.. sweet habitat, and nice light.

[A_Maddah]

Hi
lovely shot.Ilike pose and <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CMaddah%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmso html1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; direction:rtl; unicode-bidi:embed; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]-->Nice looking bird.
I agree with Kiran Watkins

Asad

[Brian Barcelos]

Very lovely capture. Nice environmental and colors. I agree on a bit of contrast boost here. I'd cut a little off the top and bottom also.

Brian

[Brian Zwiebel]

Ken, Lovely image of this bird in its habitat. I agree with the clone suggestion. I don't think the reflection of the bird's body is helping anything so would consider cropping some off bottom. Nice lighting and good details, I think exposure is probably OK as is but would consider using curves to darken the mids a little.

Good Shooting!

BZ

[Ken Watkins]

Thanks for all of the comments, I did try to clone out the "ripple" but it looked messy, I will try the cropping suggestions and have another go at that "ripple"

[Ken Watkins]

Well that took less time than anticipated, is it better I fear I have darkened the mid tones a little too much.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Very nice bird indeed. If it were mine I would crop a little on top and bottom. I believe the second repost is oversaturated.