Pelican in a pond

[Thanaboon Jearkjirm]

D700
70-200mm f2.8 VR
200mm
ISO 800
f5.6 at 1/1600s
Aperture Priority mode
Matrix metering
0EV
Auto white balance
handheld

+0.7EV, cropped and sharpen during post process.

All comments and suggestions are welcome.

[Arthur Morris]

Lovely, crazy weird bird. Wonderful image. Love the light, the COMP, and the way that the texture of the water matches the bird's plumage. Big time welcome. Do you know what type of pelican it is?

The eye could use a bit of work.

[Lance Peters]

Hi - A big warm welcome to the BPN Family - nice first post!!! Agree with Artie's comments - a bit of work to the eye and its all good - Like it a lot.

Looking forward to seeing more :)

[Gus Cobos]

Hi Thanaboon,
A big warm welcome to the BPN family...I agree with the good advise given by Mr. Morris and Mr. Peters...This is a lovely image, it has a good feel to it...looking forward to your next one...:cool:

[Alfred Forns]

Big Warm Welcome !!!!

Neat looking bird, can't say I've seen one like it !!! Agree with comments and can only add perhaps a bit more room? It is a lovely image and looking fine from my end !! Big Congrats !!!

[Ilija Dukovski]

Great bird, nice capture. I love the look of that bird!
Big welcome! Great first post!

Cheers, Ilija

[Thanaboon Jearkjirm]

Thank you all for the comments.

I believe this is the Spot-billed Pelican. As for the eye, a little brighter/clearer would be better?

[Arthur Morris]

I believe this is the Spot-billed Pelican. As for the eye, a little brighter/clearer would be better?

Thanks. Still a great bird. The rear/upper half of the eye seems smudged. You can use a quick mask to darken the pupil and another to lighten the iris just a bit. Then you could use a third QM or the Clone Too to reconstruct the rear/upper part of the eye.

[Thanaboon Jearkjirm]

Thanks. Still a great bird. The rear/upper half of the eye seems smudged. You can use a quick mask to darken the pupil and another to lighten the iris just a bit. Then you could use a third QM or the Clone Too to reconstruct the rear/upper part of the eye.

Thank you for the advice, a really great help.

[Thanaboon Jearkjirm]

My attempt at retouching the eye as suggested.

[Arthur Morris]

Him TJ, The repost is better. I improved on the eye work a bit and then ran a contrast mask on the eye on the lores and that really perked it up.

[Thanaboon Jearkjirm]

With contrast mask the bird looks more interesting.
Thank you for another good advice, learnt a lot from just first post.

[Arthur Morris]

YAW. That is the plan. Still a neat birdie.