Brown Pelican

[Adams Serra]

I took this picture yesterday afternoon at Estero Lagoon. I was laying on the mud photographing shore birds when this pelican landed in the lagoon.

MKIII
F 8.0
1/800
Iso 400
600mm x 2tc
Manual exposure

All comments are appreciated.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great light, angle, serene mood and details. I might clone out the dark spots in the BG.

[Tony Whitehead]

Lovely warm light and low angle. Comp and eye contact are great. Maybe a touch of CCW rotation needed?

[Maxis Gamez]

Hey Adams,

Gorgeous light and low angle which helps your subject stand out. However, I have to agree with Tony. This image needs some CCW rotation IMO.

Take care!

[Adams Serra]

Thank you Maxis and Tony, PS is telling me i need 0.35 ccw.

Adams

[Maxis Gamez]

Thank you Maxis and Tony, PS is telling me i need 0.35 ccw.

Adams

Let's see the difference!! Would you like to post it?

Thanks!

[Adams Serra]

Hi Maxis,
How about now?

Adams

[Adams Serra]

Hi Maxis,
How about now?

[Maxis Gamez]

Now we are talking and you can apply the same technique for your future images.

Keep up the good work!

[Tony Whitehead]

Looking good now - well done.

[Juan Aragonés]

Very good job Adams. The low angle is fantastic and the light is very nice. Love the pose of the pelican and the eye contact. I agree about the dark spots. :-)

[Ramon M. Casares]

Terrific light, pose, detail and comp. Love this shot! Congratulaitons Adam!

[Arthur Morris]

Excellent critiques and advice above and good work on the repost. Now this is a first: the head angle is good but the bird's eye looks funky as if it were cross-eyed or at least looking hard to its right...

It would seem that there is not much that you could do about this but you could re-shape the eye with a QM and Warp or you could borrow a more normal looking eye from a similar and bring it in with a QM.