A Simple Brown Pelican

[Michael Stern]

Greetings,

This photo was taken in the Everglades National Park this past Sunday. The image just seems to have "a look" that I like and it takes a relativley mundane bird and gives it some appeal...
What do you think?
Best to All and All comments welcomed..
Michael

Canon 40D
Shutter speed: 1/800 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure mode: Av
Exposure compensation: -1
Flash: External E-TTL High speed sync
Flash exposure compensation: -1 2/3
Metering mode: Evaluative
ISO: 250
Lens: EF500mm f/4L IS USM
Focal length: 500mm

[David Thomasson]

I think it's excellent. Looks like the bird posed while you set up softboxes! Is the bill really blue?

[Michael Stern]

Dave,
You bring up a good point! I went back to my original image and it is really more gray in color and I am not sure how the blue got there except the gray in the original has a blue cast to it....
Thank you for pointing that out! Much appreciated...
Michael