African Spoonbill

[Chris Kotze]

Canon EOS 40D
400.0mm (35mm equivalent: 3145mm)
Exposure time: 0.0008 s (1/1250)
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO 500

[Kobus Tollig]

One of your best ever well done. Great exposure and pose. Something funny in the bottom right corner? Looks like you extended the Canvas

[Kobus Tollig]

Looks better now Chris

[Chris Kotze]

One of your best ever well done. Great exposure and pose. Something funny in the bottom right corner? Looks like you extended the Canvas

Thanks for the Kind words Kobus. My mistake for the corner I removed a frame and made a mess I have fix it.:o

Mods & Members: I have repost it on the original as I did not change anything on the image, I only cleared a canvas piece in the RHC
my appologies

[Arthur Morris]

Sharp, lovely pose and wingspread, perfect EXP. A crop from the bottom would strengthen this. I would like to see the blue water a bit darker. All in all, however, I love it.

Was this a HORZ ORIG?

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Pose, eye contact and details look great. I would try to remove the repetitive patterns top and bottom and tone down the whites a little.

[Harshad Barve]

lovely bird and well said by all experts
I am loving the psotion of bird in frame
TFS

[Chris Kotze]

Thanks for the comments and advice. I will do a repost later today.
Artie I don't understand the question "Was this a HORZ ORIG?"

[Ryan Lambert]

Super image Chris, love the soft colours and light here, good pose captured. I can still see a bit of cloning at the bottom. Maybe just crop it a bit tighter off the bottom. I think Artie is asking if it was landscape (Horz) cropped to Portrait (Vert)

[Stu Bowie]

Super banking angle Chris, and well exposed. I like the feather detail too. Well captured.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Great pose Chris. I wish to see darker water too. I can see where you extended canvas as the patters repeat! Just use the healing brush to disguise. :) I think Artie asked if you cropped this from a horizontal image?

[Kiran Poonacha]

Beautifully exposed, nice details and the wingspread looks good... congrats...

I think it need one more round of NR on the BG.

[Dave Barnes]

I like the comp and detail on the feathers Chris.
I would like the see the BG colour have a bit more sats.
I agree with Arthur on the crop from the bottom and could have a bit more canvas on the right I think.

[Chris Kotze]

I have done a repost and comp, this is a large crop.
PS I have done a quick edit on my laptop hope the colours looks OK


Sorry Artie must have been to early for me :) I should have know what you meant by HORZ.

[Arthur Morris]

The repost is much better. May we see the ORIG capture?

[Chris Kotze]

Sorry Artie the original RAW file is on my back up system at the Office. I'm on leave at the moment I only have a cropped TIF file on my Laptop.

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks Chris, If you remember when you get home, I would love to see it. I am a curious (and persistent) sob

[sree.kumar.h]

It's a beautiful setup. The re-post is much more appealing. IMO a wider angle with more the BG would really improve the composition.