Image created at Green Cay, Delray Beach about six Spoonbills were about in the preserve.
Day after Christmas. This is my first post on this wonderful new site. I look forward to a wonderful learning experience and thank Fabs and Al for the invitation to join.
This was taken with a Canon 40 D
300 2.8 IS
7.1 1/1000 ISO 200
Manual Mode Hand held
Welcome Ted to BPN. It is great to have you her. You did a fabulous job on focusing on this flight image especially with so much vegetation in the background and I too always love to see the topside on a flight shot. Excellent detail and exposure as well.
Nice shot of this young spoonie. I'm a sucker for dorsal view flight shots, particularly ones like this with great feather detail. I met Grace when I was in Long Island in October.
Hi Tom, Welcome. You have made a sharp image of a cool pose, but the image has many problems. With the light coming from the left and a little behind the bird (I think) the feet, the tail, and parts of the head are in shadow. The bird's head is turned a bit away from you and this compounds the light-angle problems. The dried sections of light-brown vegetation in the background are distracting.
When working in relatively harsh light, you need to be right on the light angle with the sun directly behind you or problems with mega-contrast are inevitable.
later and love, artie
Last edited by Arthur Morris; 01-01-2008 at 06:50 PM.
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