Asian Openbill Stork

[Mital Patel]

Asian Openbill Stork

Canon 7D, Canon 500mm f/4, canon 1.4 tc
1/2000 at f/8, 700mm
ISO 320

Feb, 27 2010, 8:28am

[Mital Patel]

Please suggest me if colors look odd.

have just installed windows 7 on my old dell laptop dont know if colors and expo looks ok or not.

[Arthur Morris]

I am on a very slow public computer on Midway Island in the middle of nowhere (aka the Pacific Ocean) with nearly a million birds. The colors of all of the images I have viewed look pretty darned accurate on the very old monitor and that includes this image. I would go for a crop from the left and the top. Good job with the body and head angles relative to the slight sidelight. I love the narrow d-o-f and the resulting BKGR.

[Mital Patel]

thank you guru.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Nice light and angle Bhai, good notes by guru too.. I liked this..

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

I second Artie's crop suggestion. I am not sure if the bird needs a little lightening up. I dont recollect how this bird exactly looks. Very good pose and BG. must be fun working at that focal length on 7D.

[Mital Patel]

this days my territory becomes so hot as from morning it starts throwing heat from land. kind of particles in mid air between 500 and subject always makes me cry now even at 8am in morning :(

[Todd Frost]

Nice capture. I like Artie's crop idea. I too wondered about lightening the bird but I have never seen one in person so have to leave it to you as you were there. TFS
Todd

[Dave Leroy]

Very interesting looking bird.
Nicely exposed and I like the composition.
I might also look a sliver off the bottom.
On my monitor which is a new laptop the photo seems a bit dark, but that could also be me and the new laptop.
Dave

[Morkel Erasmus]

lovely depth. exposure looking good. we have an openbilled here in Africa too :)

[Jim Crosswell]

Excellent detailed image with multi-colored BG!

[David Thomasson]

I set white point and black point. I'm not sure if it's better, but it is clearly different.

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/4280/colorfixr.jpg

[RakeshDhareshwar]

David's repost has the right colour rendition. Lovely capture , dude. The intense look on the face of the bird looking for a grub adds a lot to this one.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

agree that David's repost looks better.

David, you are a magician :-)

[Mital Patel]

here is my re-processed version from what all suggested. please check and let me know what other correction needed.

thanks a lot for your suggestions.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Mital, looks very good. But some noise has come up in the BG that you might want to remove.

[Mital Patel]

hope this would be okay now with noise on bg.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Yep. thumbs up.