Limpkin Portrait

[Ed Kelly]

Limpkin at Circle B Bar in late evening light. Had a few poses and two different trees.I had a hard time deciding what I liked best. Just a little LR and ran smart sharpen through CC. Thanks for looking.Tell me what you think.

D750 & Tamron 150-600mm @ 460mm
ISO 220
F/9
1/400 second.

Ed

[Diane Miller]

I love it, but I'd like to see a version with the heavy top part of the perch removed.

The few times I've tried to photograph these, I've gotten ugly glare or reflections from the glossy feathers, Great lighting here!

[Ed Kelly]

I love it, but I'd like to see a version with the heavy top part of the perch removed.

The few times I've tried to photograph these, I've gotten ugly glare or reflections from the glossy feathers, Great lighting here!

Thanks Diane. That was my thought also. I had him looking over his shoulder towards the stump on the right,that seemed a little more balanced,but the light was just not the same. Maybe I should have just removed it. Here is the same Limpkin on the tree right next to the original tree.

[Pao Dolina]

Such a popper. Great work Ed

[Daniel Cadieux]

Ed, the second image is miles better than the first due to the better perch and for the much better head angle and BG. Well done on that one. The first has that big extra piece that Diane mentions plus the head is angling away.

[Diane Miller]

The second is better as Daniel pointed out, but there is too much negative space (where nothing is happening) on the left. The color balance is better (the first had a blue cast) but both are just a bit dark for my preferences. We have so many wonderful tools these days for bringing up darker tones and reducing bright ones.

[Ed Kelly]

The second is better as Daniel pointed out, but there is too much negative space (where nothing is happening) on the left. The color balance is better (the first had a blue cast) but both are just a bit dark for my preferences. We have so many wonderful tools these days for bringing up darker tones and reducing bright ones.

Thanks Daniel & Diane. On Flickr my images seem more lively. They tend to loose something with the conversion to Avian. Agree about the second spacing issue. That was the full frame.

[Diane Miller]

If you're set up for correct color management and using a properly calibrated and profiled monitor, images here should look identical to those on your monitor. Nothing happens here to change their appearance. BUT things can and will happen in your browser, and I don't know how things like Flickr manage color.

I pulled your images into PS and you have them in AdobeRGB. That won't make them darker, and the way I'm set up, the colors won't change from the actual values in the file. For some viewers that won't be the case.

Check two tutorials in the Educational Resources forum about getting proper colors and posting on the web.

The issue of them appearing a little dark to me could just be that we have different preferences. The last one is brighter and more to my liking. Very nice sharpness, too!

Or your monitor could be too bright, which would be causing you to adjust images toward the dark side. There's a tutorial there on that, too.