White-Faced Ibis

[Ian Cassell]

From this morning at Gilbert Riparian

Canon 7D
Canon EF400mm f/5.6L
1/1600 f/7.1 ISO 400 on tripod

S/H, Sharpening, minor crop for composition, and cleanup of debris in CS5

[Robert Amoruso]

Beautiful bird and nice getting a leg up. For my taste, a bit of a head turn away for a better look at the eye would be nice.

You do have good sharpness on the head and beak and good DOF on the bird overall. Nice work.

[Ian Cassell]

Thanks, Robert. Yes, I see what you mean about that eye! I'll have to go back and see if I have some with a better look at that beady red beauty.

[Brendan Dozier]

Great looking bird and nice capture, Ian. Like the leg up pose and nice detail.

[Dick Huberty]

Great lighting on this Ibis. The coloring and texture in the feathers is awesome.


DH

[Hendri Venter]

Agree with they eye but a very nice pose and detail captured.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Ian, beautiful bird and very elegant pose. I love walking poses. Nice colors and exposure. Is this a big crop?

Compositionally, I'd have preferred the bird a little to the left in the frame. Going by the reflection of the leg, a tad rotation is needed, it seems. If this is a crop, then I think you can go a little loose and include more room in front and a little on the top.

[Ian Cassell]

Thank you. Kaustubh, there was very little crop here, so to loosen up significantly would involve creation of some real estate.

[arash_hazeghi]

looks very nice Ian, you got the iridescence in the feathers too, details could be crisper but I think that is just JPEG compression (your file is only 120KB)

Glad the lens is still working :S3: