I captured this image of a Limpkin 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
1/2000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 100 WB set on a neutral with the eyedropper, camera supported by a monopod
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2019 and Neat Image for noise reduction
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
Love, love love the perfect head angle and the BKGR. You might want to take a stab at eliminating the large loight area just above the bill. Or not :)
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Very well done Joe. Those are not easy. What tools/techniiques did you use?
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BIRDS AS ART Blog: great info and lessons, lots of images with our legendary BAA educational Captions; we will not sell you junk. 30+ years of long lens experience/e-mail with gear questions.
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Very well done Joe. Those are not easy. What tools/techniiques did you use?
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Hi Artie, I put a selection around the bird and feathered it 3 pixels then selected the inverse. I used the Paint Brush tool in Photoshop set at a opacity of 20% selecting the green of the background as a color and painted in the background until it looked right.
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams