I captured this image of landing Roseate Spoonbill at Circle B Bar Reserve in Polk County, Florida. I would like to have had more separation between the bird and background but not to be. To get close to what I would have like I had to double process the image, different settings on the bird and background. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.
Nikon D500
Nikon 80-40mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED shot at 400mm
1/3200 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 1000 AWB
Post processed in Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC 2017
Cropped for composition and presentation
Joe Przybyla
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BG looks pretty nice here and the colors compliment the bird well. Also like the water drops on each foot. I like the wing pose and crop. Could see a version with the orange circles cloned out. TFS
Nothing more to add here Joe to the comments already made. A really interesting bird, captured and presented very well. A lot of work in that double processing though but worth it to get the result you have.
The colors are nice but the whole thing looks quite funky to me. Not sure why ...
with love, artie
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