Anhinga (f)

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image at Lake Morton in Lakeland, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 500mm PF, camera and lens supported by a Oben carbon fiber monopod with a Wimberly MonoGimbal head
1/1600 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 320 Auto 1 WB, image captured at 500mm (750mm 35mm Equivalent)
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2023 and Topaz Denoise AI
Cropped for composition and presentation

P.S. Learn about Lake Morton 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/

[Colin Driscoll]

Good pose of a difficult bird to frame. Would have been better if the full eye was showing.

[Dorian Anderson]

This is very nice. I think you posted two similar frames a few weeks back. Lovely detail and exposure. I would have gone to ISO 640 and dropped to f/8 for more depth of field. Otherwise pretty stellar.

[Joseph Przybyla]

This is very nice. I think you posted two similar frames a few weeks back. Lovely detail and exposure. I would have gone to ISO 640 and dropped to f/8 for more depth of field. Otherwise pretty stellar.

Hi Dorian, you remember well, I did post similar frames a while back. I found this that I had not processed so worked it up. When this close I don't think F/8 would have changed the depth of field on the bird much but most likely would have changed the background. I am in Artie's camp on shooting everything wide open unless a compelling reason to change. Thank you for viewing and commenting.