common bird:white ibis

[Connie Mier]

Taken a couple years ago, in my backyard. As common as these birds are here in Florida, they are one of my favorite to photograph.
sony a700, 1/60 (handheld), ISO400, f5.6
Thanks for looking
Connie

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Connie, a little tight for my tastes but still liked it. Gorgeous background.

[Julie Kenward]

I was thinking the same thing - would like to see a bit more on the top of the frame - would be nice to get that blue eye into the ROT's position (or closer to it.) I'd also clean up the beak with some cloning to lift those darker spots off.

That BG is so lovely against his white feathers and red beak!

[Stephen Stephen]

Connie nice details and BG and I love the blue eye. I'll agree with Kaustubh and Jules about it being a bit tight in the frame. I might also wish for a slightly better head turn.

I only wish that this bird was common here.

[Scott Grant]

Hi Connie!

Love the ibis also! it is a fun bird to photograph!

I love the background in this one as it is so vibrant, however i do wish for a better head angle as it seems to be angled away from you? maybe the bird was already heading past your shooting position? not sure if there is any more detail you could recover in the white plumage?

all the best!

[Arthur Morris]

Sweet BKGR and light. The whites are hot and strange: the rim light is over-exposed and detail-less. The whole upper back does not respond to a Linear Burn indicating that there is zero detail there even though those pixels do not appear to be overexposed in Levels, they are. I would start over with this one.

Lastly, the head is turned away :)

[Fabs Forns]

Tightness been mentioned. I love the golden BG and sharpness in the eye.
Seeing this on a laptop so hard to judge whites, but I trust el Maestro's eyes.

Thanks so much for participating in the project.

[Troy Lim]

BG is great, great portrait work.