Spoon on the lagoon.

[Maurice Allen]

Canon 100-400L @ 400 with 40D, ISO 800, 1/400 @ f8

[Desmond Chan]

Wow, look at that eye !

First impression is it seems kind of dark to me. But it could be this dark when you shot this. And I'm assuming you keep quite a lot of background space is because of the reflection?

The spoon looks sharp.

One thing I'm not sure though is, is that color noise in the background?

My $0.02.

[Doug West]

First thing I did was recrop it. I removed the reflection because it doesn't
really add anything to the photo, especially since the reflection is very
well defined.

It could probably use just a little more room on the right.

The second thing I did was play around with Curves a little to bring out
more of the color of the Spoonbill.

I didn't touch the noise though and the white eye (which I'm guessing
is from a flash?).

Doug

[Lance Peters]

Hi Maurice - like the pose. Dougs repost works better for me.

Just need to fix the eye - does seem to be some noise.

keep em coming

[Nicki Gwynn Jones]

Hi Maurice,
Lovely bird and pose. Agree that the eye needs fixing.
Regards,
Nicki

[Jackie Schuknecht]

I love it with the reflection in the water. Is the lighting a bit flat. Would upping the contrast a bit help. I like the crop as presented.