Snowy

[Don Lacy]

Another Gatorland image made on Sat in the nice afternoon light.

40D, 70-200 f/4 IS, 1/2500 at f/5.6, Manual. Evaluative Metred, ISO 400, RAW, Hand Held, cropped

[Stu Bowie]

He turned his head nicely for you Don, and well done on the whites in the afternoon light. The vertical works well, although I would maybe take a tad off the left.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Perfect light angle for this kind of image. not to mention, the perfect head position. You must have been really close to this guy. Very nice pose and comp.

[Morkel Erasmus]

I love this as presented. Lovely pose, exposure and detail.

[Fabs Forns]

Getting the bird off the center will improve compo. You have no light on the feet, a little fill flash would have come handy.

[Sid Garige]

Very nice image Don. Very well composed.

[Randy Stout]

Don:

As Fabs pointed out, fill would have helped with the feet, and tamed some of the dark shadows as well.
Was there some hanging foliage right behind the bird ( RUC) ?

Cheers

Randy

[Roger Clark]

Don,
You can see the shadow line on the stick, so you could do a very feathered selection and brighten the lower part of the bird and feet. The out-of-focus twigs in the background at the end of the beak are a little distracting. You could blur those a little. Those two corrections would make a very nice image in my opinion.

Roger