Approaching Spoonbill
From the Hooptie Duex with James and Blake a few weeks back. This was my favorite image from the trip. I took out some green on the bottom from the opposing shoreline. Other than that just some curves, hue/sat and some smart sharpening. Comments and critiques welcome and appreciated.
Nikon D300
Tamron 200-500mm @ 400mm
1/600
F/6.3
ISO 400
Wonderful pose and clean and sharp. It looks a little hot to me, maybe because of the red channel being blown.
Looks hot here to. Great position and stop action.
The embedded exif reads 1/1600s. so this is a typo on Philip's part...but good observation Peter!:) I love the pose and sharpness, but the bird seems too bright. Perhaps toning down the brighter parts would help here. The burn turn would work great on the wings.Originally Posted by Peter Kes
Details and composition look great, I would just darken the entire image a bit.
How does this look.
A little Hue adjustment for the sky. And a little red channel adjustment in levels.
Philip,
Outstanding subject, sharpness, action and wing positions. I also like the placement in the frame of your subject.
You are making your Tamron 200-500 look like a prime lens:).
Hey Flip,
Great capture and wings!! James re-post made this image stronger!
Really great work, Phelpael. I like this a lot. Great placement in the frame. I was really impressed with the sharpness of the image the first time I saw it. You came away with a lot of great images from this trip.
Great pose and comp here. Ditto a bit blown. You did a great job
Very sharp and a nicely designed image. The left wing position is perfect--too bad it was not matched by the left as the underwing detail there is partially hidden. Captain Froggie did a good job of reducing the contrast in the repost. Nice meeting you out there.
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Thanks for the feedback everyone. I've never had so much trouble with exposure as I've had with the Spoonies. This particular outing was actually my first forays in manual exposure. In post processing my histogram looked okay but with your comments I've learned to check the readings in the different color channels. And yes - it was a typo. My shutter speed was 1/1600 (Thanks Daniel). I'm going to make the suggested adjustments so I can print this one!
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