Coot

[Vivaldo Damilano]

D4 600vr 1/1250s at f 5 ISO640 Handheld

[Daniel Cadieux]

As good as it gets pose-wise...check out those feet! Great wings-up position too. Good job on the exposure, although I feel some of the blacks could go a tad deeper. Details are nice and the texture of the water below pretty neat. I could do without the pink strip above - its' hue is nice but the stripe itself is distracting IMO.

[Satish Ranadive]

Absolutely superb flight pose with full wings up and nice HA. I like the beautiful water with golden reflections in it.
Very nice composition too.

Regards,
Satish.

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent light, take off pose and details. good exposures, blacks need to go down a little bit as Dan suggested.

well done!

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Thanks for comments, will have a look at blacks, thanks for suggestions.

[Randy Stout]

Vivaldo:

Dan covered it well, Great pose,feet,exposure. I had the same reaction to the pink band at top, even before reading his comments.

A mighty fine coot picture, for sure.

Cheers

Randy

[gail bisson]

The takeoff pose is perfect. I like the IQ and the sharpness.
If mine, I would get rid of the salmon colored band at the top as I find my eye going there a lot.
I think this is a red knobed coot? On my monitor the blacks look OK,
Gail

[Girish Prahalad]

excellent freeze! lovely pose with great details and i really like the BG.

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the wing position, big feet, IQ, water colours and composition. I could do without the band at the top as well. Excellent image Vivaldo!

[David Salem]

Very nice Vivaldo. I like the flight pose and those big feet are displayed well. Exposure looks good to me as do the blacks on my monitor. Good looking coot shot!!

[Joe Murphy]

You don't see too many Coot in-flights, this one is great Vivaldo, love the light.

[mohammad reza shahab]

excellent take off pose,light, and details. good exposures and very nice water colours and composition.

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Thanks for suggestions, have been trying to remove banding, unfortunately it's on the original raw file so will need to do some blend. Gail you are correct, it's a red knobbed coot.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Viv, great that you got him flying, they are normally normally chasing each across the water. Nice and sharp, with excellent exposure. I feel you have the blacks spot on.

[Karl Egressy]

This bird is rarely seen or photographed in flight. Excellent capture, Vivaldo.

[christopher galeski]

good capture,sharp,nice light,well done.

[MohsenVahedipour]

Excellent flight pose. Nice light, great IQ & wing position. TFS