Pelican huddle

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

I saw this group of ( american white) pelicans huddled up on the bank. I had something like this visualized in my mind but getting the right frame with no grass in the BG took some patience. I'd have liked the the full bill to be visible though. next time perhaps.

40d . 300 f/4 non-IS. 1.4x hand-held. f/14. 1/125. iso 640. cropped from horizontal. I stopped down too much IMO. Actually I tried with different apertures but they were moving a lot. The others that I have with wider aperture do not have the same "tightness" in the BG. Sharpness is lacking a bit due to the slow SS. I have done some USM on the main bird.

I'll be paying another visit to them soon...will definitely apply some things that I learned from my first encounter.

All critiques welcome and appreciated.

KD

p.s: shot at White rock lake in Dallas.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

beautiful composition,soft light!

[Kiran Poonacha]

nice frame KD, good expo and loved the soft feel.. congrats..

[Stu Bowie]

The idea works well, and the pelican in the FG has good detail. Im seeing a bit of a blue cast on them. Maybe Im wrong. Yep, its always great to back and play with settings to capture that perfect shot.

[Daniel Cadieux]

The blue cast is there - most likely caused by them sitting in the shade. Destaurating the blue and cyan channels should work well here. Interesting concept. You could crop a sliver at right to eliminate the two yellow areas peeking in the frame.

[denise ippolito]

Kaustubh, I love the artistic look to this. Very nice exposure and details.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Thx everyone for the comments. I left the little yellow on the right because I thought the main bird will be too close to the edge otherwise.

This is my first shooting experience with the pelicans in daylight. did some silhouettes last month. Love these birds. Ideal subjects for 400 focal length :-)

KD

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the idea, soft light and agree with Daniel on either cropping a bit off the right or remove the yellow spots. Another vote for removing the blue cast.

[Danny J Brown]

Kaustubh - This is a fluffy, feather pillow of pelicans and I like it. Its the kind of composition I would have on the wall in my house - kind of artsy!

[Harshad Barve]

KD , I am quite late here ,
I must say this is awesome concept, will ty this with greater flamingos here
TFS

[James Salywoda]

Sweet shot very well seen it makes for a pretty shot. I like it...