Australian Pelican

[Tony Whitehead]

We had a too short week in Port MacQuarie, NSW earlier this year and enjoyed the birds as usual. A flock of Pelicans would move between different boat ramps depending on where fish were being cleaned and gave some flight shot opportunities in the evening light.
Nikon D800, Nikon 500mm f4 VR, ISO 800, f4 1/8000s HH
Thanks for looking.

[Loi Nguyen]

Tony, beautiful flight of a pelican. Love the colors and details of the eye and wings. The white looks just a bit hot on my monitor. Loi

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Wow, love these characters and their personality. Very lovely warm light and wing position.

[Tony Whitehead]

The white looks just a bit hot on my monitor. Loi

Thanks Loi. I must remember to revisit the histogram after converting to sRGB for web.

[MohsenVahedipour]

Great warm light, IQ & wing position. TFS

[christopher galeski]

beautiful image,nice light,sharp with good detail,nice flight pose.

[Karl Egressy]

Nice flight shot in pleasant light, Tony.
Excellent detail and perfect shooting angle. I would leave out the very top brown part of the canvas.

[gail bisson]

The IQ on this image is excellent.
I love the colors and the light.
The wing position is excellent as well with the wing tips just grazing the water,
Gail

[Bill Dix]

Wonderful light, flight position, crisp detail. Trying a browser crop, I agree with Karl about the top edge. A few little spots are pushing 250 after conversion; easy fix. Handsome image.

[Martin Dunn]

ditto to everything Gail said. Terrific colours and detail. Very serene looking bird in super light.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Tony, you have absolutely nailed this - great wing position, tack sharp, and I really like the warm colours from the late light. I also like the hint of gold on the water BG in the URC. Well captured.

[Marina Scarr]

This is a killer frame, Tony. Love the colors, comp, details in those feathers. May I inquire about why you were shooting at 1/8000 of a second? I ask b/c I so rarely find myself shooting at that high a speed.

[Tony Whitehead]

May I inquire about why you were shooting at 1/8000 of a second? I ask b/c I so rarely find myself shooting at that high a speed.

Hi Marina, That's the same question I had for myself when I pulled the exposure details from the EXIF!
This was just as the sun was setting so rapid light loss. The BG was pretty clean and even so Aperture priority and Matrix -0.3 was giving a safe exposure with the whites. ISO was my variable to keep SS up for flight shots and I should have started at 400 for a couple of minutes before pushing it up to 800

[Iain Barker]

Well done Tony on this image. I like the birds position and the fact the whole bird including the wings are pin sharp.

[David Salem]

What a great looking flight shot. Love the pose and the detail. The color and exposure are perfect. Nice bg colors too. Well done

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Wow, what a comical looking bird! Sweet light, excellent exposure and pose. Love the bg with the shade of green at the top.
Do you get these Pelicans in NZ?

[mohammad reza shahab]

great flight shot,
Sweet light, excellent exposure and pose. Love the colours and BG.