Anhinga Posing Like a Supermodel

[Harold Davis]

one i found today taken earlier in the year at anhinga trail. i actually added some canvas up front of the bird for composition. no cropping at all. put the bg on a layer by itself and added a bi-color filter in nik color efex pro and ran NR. sharpened the bird and then the eye once more on a layer by itself.

D300, bigma at 500mm, f/6.3, 1/1600s, 0EV, ISO 800, fill flash

thanks for looking. comments and critiques much appreciated.

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Good job of getting the face sharp to the tip of the bill. Amazing eye and nice and sharp. Bi-colour filter is used nicely, just enough to punch up the colour in the BG.

[Alfred Forns]

Mighty fine looking girl Harold and excellent PS work !!! Love seeing those sharp images with smooth bg !! Big Congrats !!

[wendell westfall]

Pretty pose, pretty bird, Harold.

[Oscar Zangroniz]

Great PS work my friend. Very sharp.
Congrats.

[Mirenchu Fernandez]

Beautiful image, excellent PS work.

[Jeff Cashdollar]

Cleans BG is a great thing and the sign of a pro,..nice work!

Love the eye, how do you put BG on a separate layer to run NR was this done with a NIK plug-in?

What I like the best is you show the beauty of this baby, he/she looks like they are pondering thought, I believe birds have souls,.. and your camera found it,.. and that is not a plus-in one can purchase - well done.

[Harold Davis]

thanks everyone for the replies.

jeff, i have no idea if this is the right way to do it, but i select the bird with the quick selection tool. then invert it to select the bg. i know there are other ways. this one has seemed to work well for me.

thanks again!!

[Thanaboon Jearkjirm]

Head is sharp with lots of fine details, and what an amazing eye you capture here, love it. Also like what you done with the background but might run another round of NR. Congrat on this being a full frame as well.

[Gail Spitler]

Aw shucks - all the good stuff's been said
Lovely image, dramatic, appealing; very nice PS work.

Gail

[Katie Rupp]

All around nice and I love the eye!

[kostas nianiopoulos]

great image Harold . well done .. nothing else to say ... other ppl say it ...