Tufted Puffin Portrait

[Chris Klapheke]

St. Paul Island, AK

Hard to get a clean background with these guys on cliffs.

1D Mark III, 1/60, f/16, 600mm w/2x TC, ISO 1250

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[Mital Patel]

seeing the techs this is simply amazing portrait you captured provided in condition you were. Apart from photography while processing if this were mine (I wish) i would enhance the bg brightening it and reducing green as the colors are pretty dull here.

[Randy Stout]

Chris:

A striking portrait. I like the play of light on the tuft, the great bill and sad eye. I am on my emergency back up laptop, so can't make critical call on colors.
These fellows really have character.

Cheers

Randy

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Lovely portrait with a very handsome bird. Killer BG and pose. I don't know this species personally so don't know about the dark plumage on the side, it looks dull and soft. May be that is the way it is in real life.

[Troy Lim]

Don't know much about this bird, but I love it...composition, with the head turn was great.

[allanrube]

Great pose. I like the "combed back hair" which shows attitude. :p

I don't think the color of the bird is drab at all. I would select the background and fool around a bit with the color. It may look best as is, but being a bit lighter may help????

[Daniel Cadieux]

Perfect comp, and the orange bill stands out very nicely. I too like the "combed back hair":cool: Not sure if flash was a possibility, but that would have made a nice difference on the eye and blacks IMO. Parts of the plumage seem smoothed out...perhaps by some NR?

[Kiran Poonacha]

Cool looking bird this, nice hairdo, good details and compo.. only the blacks look a bit washed..

[Doug Brown]

Excellent portrait Chris! Great detail throughout most of the image, although there is a little loss of detail in some of the blacks. Good to see you posting images!