Osprey launch

[Steve Deam]

Captured this image in Cedar Key, Florida. Very harsh afyernoon sun. PP on a low-end monitor while traveling. Histogram shows whites okay, but inside edge of left wing looks a little blown on this monitor...

Canon 5DM3 • 200-400mm @ 560 • 1/4000 @ 5.6 • ISO 400 • handheld • LR & Color Efex 4

[David Salem]

Great looking take off pose and I like the wing position and the perch. Overall good looking exposure and detail. Well done

[Grace Scalzo]

You did the best you could with impossible light. Personally, I avoid it and shoot early am or last light most of the time. The eye could be sharper, I think burning the pupil could help that.

[Diane Miller]

I wonder if you could go for more shadow and highlight detail (effectively lowering contrast a little) with the Shadows and Highlights sliders in LR, but maybe this is as far as you could go. Good job for harsh sun -- it might not give the most pleasing results, but I'll take what I can get in any light.