Limpkin

[Joseph Przybyla]

I haven't posted in an while, became involved in a couple things other than photography. That taken care of I'm back. This week I went to Circle B Bar Reserve capturing this image of a Limpkin. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D7000
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED shot at 400mm (600mm FFE)
1/2000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering 0 EV ISO 450 AWB, camera supported by a monopod
Post processed in Lightroom 6 and Photoshop Elements 10
Cropped for composition and presentation, vertical from horizontal

[Ross Taylor]

Hi Joe,

What a wonderful portrait! Everything looks tack sharp and the feather texture/detail is great :)

I noticed a thin blue line on the upper bill (bordering the BG), near where plumage starts. Wondering what that might be ?

The lhs and rhs feels slightly tight, perhaps a tad more space each side ?

TFS
Ross

[Joseph Przybyla]

Hi Ross, thanks for viewing and commenting. As many times as I looked at this image in post I did not notice the blue/purple fringing in that area. I worked on it in using the Lightroom tool to remove purple fringing and also in Photoshop Elements. I rotated the 4x5 crop for more background area on both sides. Thanks again, much appreciated.

[Ross Taylor]

Great work on the fringing Joe. The bird seems to have more breathing room now :) Lhs seems great. I am wondering if something was lost with that much more room on the rhs though? Also seeing in my minds eye how a square crop may work here. I am a bit uncertain about these things, would be interesting to see what the others think :)
Ross

[Karl Egressy]

Nice portrait, amazing details, Joe.

[David Cowling]

Amazing detail on the feathers. The bill and the eye are sharp and the whole image has a lovely quality to it. Beautiful portrait.

[Marina Scarr]

Truly a killer portrait and I knew it was yours without even looking at the name. I personally like the tighter first crop for this particular image.

[keith mitchell]

Been pretty well covered above Joe, will be hard to get better than this.

Keith.

[Lorant Voros]

Very nice portrait with the super details and nice colors. I prefer the OP as well. Great work, Joseph.

[David Salem]

Nice clean detailed portrait. Great colors and I prefer the OP too. Well done

[Jim Crosswell]

Excellent image Joe! I like the sharpness, IQ, details, BG and composition in the OP.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Perhaps simply doubling the amount of space in front of the bill (from the OP) would be good enough to give that bill a bit of space to breath. Good portrait otherwise with plenty of good detail, with only the sheen on the bill being a bit strong.

[William Dickson]

Great looking image Joe. Perfect details and colours throughout. That BG was made for this image, it 'fits' perfectly.

Well done

Will

[Joseph Przybyla]

Thanks everyone for viewing and commenting, very much appreciated.