Gone Fishing

[Oscar Zangroniz]

From late this morning at Shark Valley in the Everglades. Will also post the original capture.
Nikon D300, Nikon 70-200mm vr 2.8 @200mm, F2.8, 1/500, ISO 400, Manual Mode, Exposure Comp -1/3, Handheld

[Oscar Zangroniz]

Considerable PS on the final one

[Alfred Forns]

Massive cleaning effort and well done !!!! When I first saw it I was thinking.... that is really fortunate to find this lovely bird with such a nice catch in the open :)

Oscar I downloaded the image because I thought there was something spooky with the processing but the original has strange looking feathers Sweet catch !!!!

[denise ippolito]

Oscar, Really nice PP work!

[Gus Cobos]

Mr. O,
This is excellent...no more, no less...This one is a wall hanger...really proud of you...you did well...My hat off to you...:):cool:

P.S. and I remember telling you not to take it because the background was too busy...I'm glad you did...:cool:

[Lance Peters]

Hi Oz - love the action - well done on the PP work as well. Big Congrats :)

[Christopher Miller]

Very nice job cleaning this up! I'm in awe!

I wonder if there's anything you could do to make the water look a little more natural. The cloning looks a little too obvious for my taste.

[Dave Mills]

Oscar...You really spent time on this one...good effort though.Definately a huge improvement. One of the tricks to cloning is not to noticeably repeat the same patterns. If you look on the bottom near the shadow I noticed 3 patterns in a row that are very similar. I would change those patterns so they don't look alike...

[Nonda Surratt]

Super post work Oscar!! I like what ever you did to the bottom half of the image, different and cool.

One big fish birdie has:-)

[Harold Davis]

i now dont believe anything i see!! wow!! nice work!!!! you got some nice detail in the bird with that crop. awesome!