Gator and Anhinga

[Raul Quinones]

Gator with lunch.
Anhinga Trail, Everglades National Park.

Canon 40D, 500mm, 1.4TC
Aperture Priority, 1/200", F9, ISO 200, 700mm

[Robert O'Toole]

Wow how cool. Great sharpness and details.

The only nagative I can see in the image are the glaring highlights, you can try to use a mask but usually with this type of over exp you would have to convert another image at -2 and blend the highlights with a mask. Takes 5 minutes and would be worth the hassles.

Really good job for 1/200! Out of curiosity, why F9?

Robert

[D. Robert Franz]

Some tough highlights but an excellent natural history image. A little minus exposure comp probably -1/3 would have helped. The dark water was influencing your meter.

[Raul Quinones]

Thanks for inputs. I have to stop working on my laptop or calibrate the display.
Why F9? Because I have to learn to slow down and check my settings and don't get caught in the excitement of the moment. ("rookie moment")
Here is another attempt:

[Todd Frost]

Repost looks much better Raul. Very nice capture.

Todd

[Cindy Cone]

I like the repost a lot. Great capture of the gator capture.