Orange Sherbet... (C)

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image of a Flamingo at Gatorland in Orlando, Florida. When exiting the park after photographing at the rookery the walkway passes a exhibition of Flamingos. I have stopped a couple times to look and capture a few images. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED, camera supported by a monopod
1/1000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 360 Auto 1 WB, image captured at 400mm
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2020 and Neat Image for noise reduction
Cropped for composition and presentation

[gail bisson]

Lots of good details and colors are well processed.
Kind of different to see a landscape orientation on a flamingo portrait- usually see portrait to show the long neck.
Gail

[Randy Stout]

Nice one Joe:

I think the story of this image is that giant bill. The Jimmy Durante look. Nicely exposed, soft background.

A truly minor point, but I might soften the vertical yellow green edge just in front of the bill.

Cheers

Randy

[kevin Hice]

Beautiful Joe and well captured along with the processing. Great details and love that bill and eye contact is what makes this for me. TFS

[David Roach]

Great title and I love the composition. This angle really shows off the face and that impressive beak. TFS

[John Mack]

Solid portrait. Framing is right on. Like the background as well. Now i want some orange sherbert.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice. I even like the faint shadow across the top of the eye. Great colours. I'm with Randy in regards to the vertical stripe in front of the bill.