African sacred ibis in the air
I sincerely hope that this can be considered the height of the forum.
If this is not enough quality to me "relegates" forum ETL
Taking about a year ago, freehand.
It is a Sacred Ibis, now very common in my area
Light crop compositional
Processing with Canon DPP and GIMP
I hope you enjoy it.
Canon EOS 1D Mark IIn + Canon 300 USM L f/4 + Kenko DGX extender 1,4
420mm focal
1/2000 sec.
f/5,6
ISO250
free hand
Great unique looking bird! I like the how the blue set off the bird nicely. Composition wise the bird is too close to the left side of the frame. I would add a bit more canvas behind and below the bird a bit.
Molina:
Very interesting markings on the head. Nice angle in the frame.
Agree with Raybel about too tight to frame edge.
If you haven't done so, I would try to do some shadow recovering to bring up the under wing exposure a bit. In fact, I would consider increasing the overall exposure about .25 of a stop, and then adjust the shadows to taste.
Look forward to more.
Cheers
Randy
Good image
Gianluca sent me the raw yesterday for this one whilst we we discussing the merits of the ETL and the AVIAN forum
This is my repost of the same image
Using ACR to convert the raw then did some work on the underwing shadows, cloned out the dark shadowline on the lower breast and used a bit of Linear Burn on the highlights
USM for web
Nice improvement Shane. Addressed the main issues of the OP.
Cheers
Randy
The repost does justice to this beautiful shot and bird. Good work.
Thank you again shane but ... I prefer the image that shows the shadow of the sun under the wing of the bird ... personal tastes
Beautiful image. I prefer Shane's repost a bit more, which pulls out some nice underwing details and lets us experience the whole bird.
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