Brown Pelican in Flight

[RR Donavan]

Photograghed thiis awhile back,but wasn't quite sure whether to keep it or trash it. I liked the eye contact. My PS work always leaves a lot to be desired. So apart from the noise, halo, etc what do you think of this kind of image?

C & C, good and bad welcome.

Roy

1DMk II, 70-200mm IS, 1/500, f8, ISO 400

[Doug Brown]

Eye contact is nice Roy. Some + EC or fill flash would have helped bring out some detail in the darks. I'd rather see a horizontal crop. Thanks for posting!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Interesting crop idea, good details and BG. The underside of the bird looks just black. You could try to recover some of the details using S/H and/or curves. It looks a bit oversaturated and the BG has some color noise.

[Arthur Morris]

Hi RR, I see that you figured out how to post this as a new thread. That is good. I like the crop. Where do you live, somewhere on the west coast I would guess. Please add your location to your profile. Where was this bird photographed?

The over-SAT is my biggest problem. If you would like to learn Photoshop quickly, check out the Digital Basics link on my home page.

[RR Donavan]

Where do you live, somewhere on the west coast I would guess. Please add your location to your profile. Where was this bird photographed?

The over-SAT is my biggest problem. If you would like to learn Photoshop quickly, check out the Digital Basics link on my home page.

Thanks for the comments Artie. When this image was made, I lived in Miami and am a longtime friend of the Forns. I now live in the suburbs of Atlanta and small birds make up 95 % of my photographic subjects now,

This pelican was photographed off of one of the bridges near Long Key (could be considered West Coast). I was shooting with a 500mm hand held when this guy/gal flew by. I cropped it from a full frame horizontal.

Thanks for offering your DB, but I already have it and just bought Robert O'Toole's CD. I'm just a slow learner who needs to spend more time with the tutorials.

Thanks again.

Roy

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks for the comments Artie. This pelican was photographed off of one of the bridges near Long Key (could be considered West Coast).

Hey Roy. YAW. I am amazed at the location as this bird is showing red on the neck--I have never seen this on a Brown Pelican in FLA--it is seen on birds from the real west coast during the breeding season.