I captured this image along Black Point Wildlife Drive in Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Merritt Island, 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 image captured at 400mm
1/4000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 1400 AWB HH
Post processed in Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop CC 2018
Cropped for composition and presentation
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
Pretty much perfect. The WHITEs are not overexposed but could use a bit more detail. I selected them and ran a 20% Linear Burn for the repost. Then I de-saturated the YELLOWs on the bill. Last was a crop to 3X2 for those who are not big fans of boxy crops. I think that the repost is more pleasing artistically and the IQ held up just fine.
with love, arite
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Pretty cool to see these up close! You had enough light, and the BG edistant enough, to stop down for more dof on this tight portrait. I love the face details, light, wet neck feathers. Artie's repost brings it up a notch as well.
ps: I made a few very similar images here at ILE yesterday morning :)
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