Juvenile Ibis at dusk

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

taken last week at Wakodahatchee just as the sun was setting.

Nikon D300
Nikon 300 mm F2.8
ISO 640
!250, F5.6
manual

All comments are appreciated.

[Randy Stout]

Judy:

I like the pose, clouds in background. I know you want to maintain the evening feel, but I might be tempted to try a version 1/2 stop brighter, perhaps selectively on the bird, while keeping the darker clouds.

Fun to see the different coloration on the juvenile.

Cheers

Randy

[Dave Leroy]

I sure like the the nice clean bird and dramatic clouds in bg. Along with a bit lighter bird, I might also go fro even more dramatic clouds. Dave

[Fabs Forns]

Judy, flash would have helped here, keeping the exposure neutral on the sky to keep the colors.
Here, I use Nik Reflector to lighten the bird and Darken/lighten to darken the borders and increase SAT a bit.
Hope you like it.

[Ofer Levy]

Hi Judy, I like this image with the beautiful light and lovely pose. Played with it a bit - here is a repost as an idea. Some levels, colour saturation, selectively working on BG and bird, some fixing the bright areas in the BG. I am sure you can get a far better result working with the RAW file.
Only saw Fabs repost after posting mine....

[arash_hazeghi]

Excellent BG, wing position and sharpness, getting better with each repost!

[Stu Bowie]

Judy, great to see the juvvies, and I like the soft light and warm colours. Both reposts look good to me.

[Dan Fleming]

Hi Judy,

What a great pose with excellent technicals. I think I'd vote for somewhere in between the original and the reposts.

Dan

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Thanks Fab and Ofer. Great to see the different looks with the different approaches to editing. Really appreciate your in put. As yet Fab I do not have the nik software. Must look into it. Again many thanks.

judylynn

[Deborah Hanson]

Peaceful is what comes to mind when I view the photograph. The soft muted colors/lighting of the background are beautiful.
Can't decide between the repost by Fabs or your original. I liked the darker image of the bird except for the loss of detail of the forward wing - so the lightening of the image by Fabs works in that area.
As an aside - NIK software is great.

Deb

[Marina Scarr]

You have a wonderful (painterly) BG here! I have to go with Ofer's repost b/c the bird's head appears to have more details and to be more accurate as far as color.