White Sky, Pink Bird

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image of a Roseate Spoonbill while walking along the westerly shore of Lake Parker in Lakeland, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 500mm PF, Handheld
1/2000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 200 Auto 1 WB, image captured at 500mm (750mm 35mm Equivalent)
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2022 and Topaz Denoise AI
Cropped for composition and presentation

P.S. Learn more about the west shore of Lake Parker in the BAA Middle Florida Photography Site Guide that Artie and I co-authored. It is available at this link https://birdsasart-shop.com/the-baa-...ic-site-guide/

[Andreas Liedmann]

hi Joe .. super flight pose and I do like the pink on white .
not sure what you did to the details of the subjects ... to me they look funky , would like to see a version without these artifacts .
will look better I think .
I might try a high key image including the subject , see how that looks .
all the above for sure my personal opinion

tfs Andreas

[Joseph Przybyla]

hi Joe .. super flight pose and I do like the pink on white .
not sure what you did to the details of the subjects ... to me they look funky , would like to see a version without these artifacts .
will look better I think .
I might try a high key image including the subject , see how that looks .
all the above for sure my personal opinion

tfs Andreas

Hi Andreas, thanks for viewing and commenting. Here is a do over... better?

[Andreas Liedmann]

Sadly no Joe ... to be honest .
what bother me is the grainy structure which is not present in the bird feathers . mostly visible in head ,neck , feet and bill .
can only guess .... you might have used the structure slider in LR . or something similar . this slider or kind of in other software is a big NO NO . as it does create that crunchy look .... imho .

I really hope you see in your image what I am talking about . again just my personal taste

cheers Andreas

[Joseph Przybyla]

Sadly no Joe ... to be honest .
what bother me is the grainy structure which is not present in the bird feathers . mostly visible in head ,neck , feet and bill .
can only guess .... you might have used the structure slider in LR . or something similar . this slider or kind of in other software is a big NO NO . as it does create that crunchy look .... imho .

I really hope you see in your image what I am talking about . again just my personal taste

cheers Andreas

Hi Andreas, thank you for coming back and explaining in detail what you are seeing. Looking at the image I can see exactly what you describe. I'll discover what is causing it. It is not clarity, texture any of those sliders in Lightroom because I do not use them. I think it is sharpening and noise reduction. When I find the cause I will repost.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Good exposure and colours here Joe. The pinks are very well rendered. The OP looks good to me as posted, but can see what Andreas points out as it may be even more evident in larger sizes. Repost is too noisy. I do wish the wings were even lower, but realize they can sometimes fly without fully flapping their wings to the max.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Good exposure and colours here Joe. The pinks are very well rendered. The OP looks good to me as posted, but can see what Andreas points out as it may be even more evident in larger sizes. Repost is too noisy. I do wish the wings were even lower, but realize they can sometimes fly without fully flapping their wings to the max.

Thanks Dan, I appreciate your feedback.