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Marbled Godwit
Time for a (probably temporary!) break from Puffins, and back to Fort Desoto. Here there was some cloud cover which gave the lagoon a nice (in my opinion) high key look against the bird.
Canon 1dx
500mm f4 is
ISO 1250
1/1250th f4
Mike
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I knew this was from Fort DeSoto. Something about the light and water color.
Nice low POV and good DOF.
I would boost saturation on the bird a bit to show off the nice color in bill and feathers,
gail
PS Does this need a hint of CCW rotation?
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Beautiful looking high key image Mike, Love the Pose and the nice details. I agree with Gail about bumping up the saturation a bit to give it some nice pop. Rotation looks good to me though. Well done
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Hi Mike,
You are practically in my neighborhood. Was this in July? I like everything about the image but the bird looks a bit over-sharpened and jangly to me ...
with love, artie
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A lovely shot. Ditto comments above: yes to a little more saturation, a little less sharpening.
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Originally Posted by
gail bisson
I knew this was from Fort DeSoto. Something about the light and water color.
Nice low POV and good DOF.
I would boost saturation on the bird a bit to show off the nice color in bill and feathers,
gail
PS Does this need a hint of CCW rotation?
Originally Posted by
David Salem
Beautiful looking high key image Mike, Love the Pose and the nice details. I agree with Gail about bumping up the saturation a bit to give it some nice pop. Rotation looks good to me though. Well done
Originally Posted by
Bill Dix
A lovely shot. Ditto comments above: yes to a little more saturation, a little less sharpening.
Gail, David, Bill, thanks for the crit, I've tried to address the saturation a bit below, and backed off the sharpening. The only output sharpening was a small amount around the eye.
Originally Posted by
Arthur Morris
Hi Mike,
You are practically in my neighborhood. Was this in July? I like everything about the image but the bird looks a bit over-sharpened and jangly to me ...
with love, artie
Thanks Artie, this was from back in April, a substitute photography morning after we unfortunately couldn't meet up at Gatorland. Hopefully this addresses the above points.
Mike
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Thanks Mike. July would have been quite a bit early for this species. Good job on the properly sharpened repost.
with love, artie
ps: I sharpen 99% of my 1200 wide JPEGs with Unsharp Mask at 110, 0.3, 0 ...
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Well done Mike, the repost sure makes the bird look better. I like the pose you got and the POV.
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