One more time.
Roseate Spoonbill
Tampa Bay, from the deck of "The Hooptie Deux"
Nikon D300 Sigma 300-800mm @ 650mm
ISO 400
1/2000ss @ F6.3 I tend to make images around F8 for this type of image.
In this case I wanted a smooth background, so F6.3 (5.6 is my max aperture)
Rare for me to get a green background with Spoonies so this tickled me.
I used some average blur in a layer to level the background out a bit.
Thanks James
Slightly too clean for my taste....I wonder if the average blur was really needed. But what a pose!!!
Stunning! Striking pose, terific detail, great colors and BG and fantastic comp IMO. congratulations!
Beautiful pink on green and great pose. Jasper has a point about the blur.
I much prefer green to blue for Spoonies, so I like this very much.
Coming from Artie's school, I rarely use f/8. unless I'm doing a head on face portrait or a pair of bird. Then again, I have one more stop at minimum f/4
Oooh like this one a lot James Cool flight pose and a killer BG. Love it.
James, this turn is very impressive. Very nice details and colors.
I find the wing contour a bit strange.
Szimi
Love the angled pose and the killer BKGR (which, by the way, is patented by me) As for the Average Blur, it was well done and those mangroves can be a bit unpleasant when birds are landing right in front of them as they often do. May I assume that you reduced the opacity there? Also, how did you select the BKGR?
Note to Fabs: I pretty much use f/8 nmow for sunny flight except with closer BKGRs.
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Thanks Artie,Originally Posted by Arthur Morris
I did use the opacity slider. I did two passes with avg blur in small amounts.
To select the background I used the magic wand and refined the edges with Refine Edge tool.
James
Outstanding James, but you know that my friend.
Hey James,
Killer pose.....I might go for a hair more detail back in the BG....but it's not a deal breaker IMO. Love the tight crop:D...as it makes a nice diagonal.
Do you think the Hooptie will be able to handle 2 Pigmonsters on board??:eek:
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