Adult Osprey with Chick

[Gail Cordes]

This image was captured during our trip to the Everglades in February 2009. A lot of pixels were expended to get the chick visible along with the adult.

Canon 40D with 300 f4 and 1.4 tc. Manual exposure at ISO 400 with EV 0 and f8 and 1/640 hand held. Full frame. Shadows/highlight used to enhance sky and bring out wing detail. I spent a lot of time cloning and quick-masking to delete some sticks from in front of the chick. Does this look okay?

Thanks for looking. Comments welcome.

[Alfred Forns]

Remember the bird Gail !! We sure had changes at them !!!! Sharp well exposed and showing behavior !! Excellent nesting image !!! PS work does look realistic and smooth !!!

[Thanaboon Jearkjirm]

Love the pose of the adult, you did a good job in bring out the underwing details. Good HA and eye contact of the chick, a very clean job in cloning out the sticks. Wish the light was more ideal and the stick on the right side of the nest wasn't cut off. Also a bit more blue in the sky would help.

[Lance Peters]

Hi Gail - ditto AL'S comments - PS work looks good. Like those outstretched wings.
Good show :)

[Gus Cobos]

Hi Gail,
I like the capture, you have very good details and your capture tells the story...well done...:cool:

[Gerard Satherley]

Wonderful nest image. I like the raised wings and details.