American White Pelican

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image at Lake Morton in Lakeland, Florida. 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 300mm

1/1250 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV -2/3 ISO 140 AWB, camera supported by a monopod

Post processed in Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC 2017

Cropped for composition and presentation

[Alex Becker]

Lovely details in the whites and the beak / eye here. The water BG is nice and the vertical composition was a good choice here. DOF works but with that ISO I could see stopped down for a bit more. TFS

[gail bisson]

Oh...this is lovely! You nailed the whites here and the IQ is excellent.
Very nice , Joe!
Gail

[Daniel Cadieux]

Perfectly balanced comp, beautiful whites and full of detail. To me the blues look they are slightly too saturated, but not by much. Very appealing portrait.

[William Dickson]

Well done Joe. Great control on the whites and a lovely looking pose.

Will

[Steve Kaluski]

Cracking detail Joe, having a darker backdrop would have given a deeper standout/pop IMHO.

TFS
Steve

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Outstanding portrait, Joe. Wonderful handling of the whites, and fine detail. Like the eye contact.


Geoffrey




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[John Mack]

Very nice portrait, really like the yellow and blue together.

[David Salem]

Great looking portrait from the King of portraits!! Killer exposure control and details in this one and I personally like the water color. Well done Joe

[stuart wanuck]

nice portrait great whites

[Joseph Przybyla]

Thanks everyone for viewing and commenting, very much appreciated.