Brown Pelican

[Ian Cassell]

Galapagos Archipelago

Canon 7D
Canon EF400/5.6L
1/400 sec f/5.6 ISO 800

Small crop for comp and sharpening in CS6

[arash_hazeghi]

I like the pose but the pelican is blurry (from slow SS) and too large in the frame

[Randy Stout]

Ian:

A most unusual and effective preening pose, but the sharpness isn't ideal, as mentioned by Arash.

The exposure looks good, and the separation from the dark background is quite good.

Cheers

Randy

[Marina Scarr]

This is such a fun, unusual image and would have worked well if not for the blur. You can try a little more sharpening on the head to see if that helps. It's the environment, color scheme and pose here which make for the interesting image.