Brown Pelican

[Kerry Perkins]

Captured at Goleta Beach Park near Santa Barbara in late afternoon. There is an estuary there where one can find pelicans, great egrets, snowies, great blues (nesting!), night herons, cormorants, ducks, coots, and... Great little spot!

Converted in LR2, cropped, adjusted, and sharpened in PS CS4.

50D, EF400mm f/5.6L
Manual mode, f/5.6@1/2000 ISO 200 WB 5100K
AI Servo autofocus, hand-held no flash

[Ray Rozema]

Great pose, detail , HA and color. I do find the white reflection over the back a little distracting
overall very good. TFS

ray:)

[Anita Rakestraw]

Looks good, Kerry. Agree about the white reflection. You could sharpen the tip of the bill and the water drops a bit maybe.

[Jeff Cashdollar]

Kerry,

You are seriously nailing these exposures and your IQ is great - strong image!

Just look at that eye and feather detail - sweet!

[Kerry Perkins]

Thanks guys! I think I'll go back to this one and clone out the bridge pylon reflection. Good call!

[Kerry Perkins]

Adjustments made as suggested - cloned out distracting reflection and added some sharpening to the bill and water drop. Thanks! :)

[Gus Cobos]

The repost without the vertical white reflection is spot on Kerry...congratulations...this is a sweet image...love it...:cool:

[Jeff Cashdollar]

Repost is better - congrads - TFS.

[Lance Peters]

Repost rocks - great suggestions.
Good one Kerry!!!!!

[kostas nianiopoulos]

well done Kerry this is a great image , with a good looking guy .