I captured this image recently at Circle B Bar Reserve in Polk County, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.
Nikon D500
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED image captured at 400mm
1/2500 F/8 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 1250 AWB, camera supported by a monopod
Post processed in Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop CC 2018
Cropped slightly for composition and presentation
Last edited by Joseph Przybyla; 01-18-2018 at 01:56 PM.
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
Joe this is superb! Really impressive, love the colours and pose. Being hypercritical now but if you lowered the luminosity on the lower mandible a tad and say two tads on the whites just before the base of the mandible I reckon it would be tickety boo.
I note a small patch of green on the "shoulder" I guess this is algae? The darkest darks are "dark" but that looks ok to me.
Love the details, curve of the neck, open bill, all good. I think the 1500 pix horizontal dimension looks good. I believe we will gradually get a feel for what is the best compromise size wise for the majority of the people.
Joe, this looks superb. I agree with Jon's comments and think a little play with the lighting as suggested would lift this even further. Image size works very well for me too and really shows this bird off nicely. I like the streaky OOF reflections 'trickling' down the background in this one too.
Hi Joe, brilliant IQ and detail in this, and the open beak showing the tongue takes this up a few notches. The blue BG works really well. Well captured.