White Breasted Cormorant.

[Stu Bowie]

Another image from yesterday using manual exposure. Captured at a birding spot in Pretoria. I extended the canvas a tad on top and left.

Canon 50D
100-400 @ 400mm
1/2500
F/5.6
ISO 500

Manual Exposure
Hand Held

[Randy Stout]

Stuart:

Nice wing spread, drops,soft background. Nice job on the canvas extension.

Wish the head was around our way a bit more.

Shoulder looks a bit hot on my work monitor, which tends to display a bit hot, so perhaps OK.

Cheers

Randy

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Lovely Stu, love the colours and a superb BG. I also like the wing spread and pose. Whites detail is mostly ok, besides some white spot TFS:cheers:

[Dave Leroy]

Another tough exposure well handled. Color cop could not find any hot spots although adding some blacks to the whites may cool them off a bit.

Lovely pose showing all the details and I really like the bg.

Dave

[Tom Rambaut]

I too like the full wing spread and it looks like you had tought lighting conditions - Southern Hemisphere light. Some of the white areas look hot to me too. I like the image.

I have been trying to photograph a simular species, the Pied Cormorant, without clipping the whites, have not had much success as were I'm photographing then also has a dark background and the bird is black with simular white areas to your species here. Keep trying I guess.

[arash_hazeghi]

great shot Stu, love the BG, I might try pulling down the whites a bit

[DanWalters]

Nice light and I like the wing position. Agree the whites are a little hot.

[Dumay de Boulle]

Great wing position and exp on the darks...Whites look borderline but maybe it was fine on the raw but once converted could show brighter (just a guess)and also could be because of the dark but awesome mottled BG...I suppose the manual mode is also a bit of al earning curve! A man with your skills should learn quickly:S3:

[Stu Bowie]

Thanks a stack for all the feedback and comments. Always appreciated.

[Bill Dix]

Nice flight shot, Stuart. Great wing spread and background, and I like the water drops as an added touch. I agree with others about whites, and head turn, but a very nice image.

[Stu Bowie]

Thanks for your input Bill.