Church Road Wood Stork

[Bob Pelkey]

Canon EOS 1D Mark IV ,Canon EF 600mm f/4L IS USM
1/6400s f/5.0 at 600.0mm iso400
Image cropped due to the bird too far right in the frame.
In CS5, clarity +15, vibrance +15, saturation 336/6 35/66 +11, sharpen edges.
Tripod used, panning. Time of day corrected (for daylight savings) in EXIF Info.

Full EXIF Info
Date/Time	03-Jan-2015 12:07:42
Make	Canon
Model	Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Flash Used	No
Focal Length	600 mm
Exposure Time	1/6400 sec
Aperture	f/5
ISO Equivalent	400
Exposure Bias	-1/3
White Balance	0
Metering Mode	matrix (5)
JPEG Quality	(7)
Exposure Program	aperture priority (3)
Focus Distance	31.3 m

[Alan Murphy]

Great timing. The only thing that would be better is if the wings were down or up.

[gail bisson]

Very nice to see a wood stork in a land based environment. Very pleasing BG and nice eye level view. IQ is good.
I would like a bit more room in front and wish that the bird wasn't slightly past you.
Gail

[Bob Pelkey]

Thank you for your comment, Alan. I went back to review the series of seventeen images captured of this stork in the two seconds it was in flight before I gave up on it. The first full wings up image had the wing tips significantly clipped. There were two other wings up opportunities in the series, but the bird was too far to my right to consider them for processing. Of the five wings down images captured, the last two were too far to my right, the previous two hid the bird's eye, with the first to appear in my blog.

[Bob Pelkey]

Thank you for your comment, Gail. I consider myself lucky to have had this bird isolated as there are typically a handful of the species huddled close together at this venue. My expectation was certainly not that the bird would fly in my general direction, and was fortunately ready to get what I did.

Very nice to see a wood stork in a land based environment. Very pleasing BG and nice eye level view. IQ is good.
I would like a bit more room in front and wish that the bird wasn't slightly past you.
Gail