Sacred Ibis

[Morkel Erasmus]

These birds can be tricky to expose correctly!

Techs:
Canon 7D with 100-400mm L IS USM @ 310mm
f7.1 @ 1/4000 SS @ ISO-1600
Exposure bias +1

[Aidan Briggs]

Good job on the exposure and the clouds are a nice touch. You got a perfect wingspread here. The only bummer is the slight head turn away.

Keep them coming Morkel!

[Austin Thomas]

Very nice light under the wings Mokel. Great EXP and I like that we can see all of the feathers nicely outstretched.

The head might go a little more USM as it appears softer than the wings for instance.

Cheers

Austin

[Randy Stout]

Morkel:

The clouds add a lot, much greater sense of depth than plain sky BG.

Nice wing display.

I am not sure if the head is really less sharp, or just that it is so dark and almost featureless, that it appears so.

Agree about the head turn.

cheers

Randy

[Joerg Rockenberger]

Beautiful light and wing spread. Love the clouds and slightly open bill. Head seems a bit dark. JR

[arash_hazeghi]

nice wing positions and light, a slight head turn towards the viewer would have been ideal.

[Dave Barnes]

Nice one Mork.
Any thought of moving to manual exposure yet?

[Indranil Sircar]

Beautiful light and details on the wing. Sky does add a lot.

[Morkel Erasmus]

thanks everyone...I do wish the head angle was slightly better

Dave - by Manual you mean setting everything yourself, would be interested to read on some techniques for birding

[Dave Barnes]

Yip Morkel that is what I mean.
Should be a lot of info on this site and you can google manual exposure as well.

[Nico Steenberg]

IMG is well exposed with great detail and the clouds adds to the shot. Well done Morkel :S3:

[Morkel Erasmus]

thanks Nico

Dave - do you use it? I've always been happy with using either Tv or Av, I use full manual for landscape work...