African Wattled Lapwing

[Callie de Wet]

African Wattled Lapwing, Vanellus senegallus, Kingdom: Animalia (Animals), Phylum: Chordata (Vertebrates), Class: Aves (Birds), Order: Charadriiformes (Waderlike Birds), "Family: Charadriidae (Plovers, Etc.)", Lelkiewiet, Senegalkiebitz, Abibe-carunculado, Vanneau du Sénégal, Lelkievit, Wattled Plover
Shot this morning at Rietvlei Nature Reserve, Pretoria. D300s, ISO 200, F/8, 1/160, -1/3; 09h59AM, Cropped off a bit behind back, saturated image a bit to bring out contrast.

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Callie Image not coming up?

[Callie de Wet]

Thanks Alfred, Much appreciated!:)

[Ofer Levy]

Lovely portrait of this beauty! Great detail. Would crop a tiny bit off the top to make it more of a standard horizontal.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the sharpness, eye contact and BG and wish for a bit head turn toward you. The image has a strong magenta cast on my monitor.

I merged your posts so that the forum software can create a thumbnail. For future reference, you can edit your original post and add the image.

[Callie de Wet]

I like the sharpness, eye contact and BG and wish for a bit head turn toward you. The image has a strong magenta cast on my monitor.

I merged your posts so that the forum software can create a thumbnail. For future reference, you can edit your original post and add the image.

Thanks Axel, I got my names mixed-up. I tried the edit, but found no way to get the image in the original post. Where does one find the merge feature?
My ability to diagnose colour casts are not well developed and I cannot see the magenta.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Thanks Axel, I got my names mixed-up. I tried the edit, but found no way to get the image in the original post. Where does one find the merge feature?
My ability to diagnose colour casts are not well developed and I cannot see the magenta.

When you go to edit and then scroll down to 'manage attachments', you should be able to post an image.

As for the color cast, if you look at the plumage that should be white, you might see that it has a purple/magenta cast.

[Callie de Wet]

As for the color cast, if you look at the plumage that should be white, you might see that it has a purple/magenta cast.

Thanks Axel, I played a bit with the magenta slider, and cropped the image as suggested by Ofer.

[Alfred Forns]

Agree with suggestions !! Sweet bird Callie .. btw could also make up a soft brush and run over bg !!!

[Callie de Wet]

Tried to upload the image, but does not seem to work with the quote option?

[Callie de Wet]

Agree with suggestions !! Sweet bird Callie .. btw could also make up a soft brush and run over bg !!!

Thanks Alfred, will try it, also a Gaussian blur on the BG might work.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Callie, I posted this image a little while back. I believe these are the true colours. I cannot understand how you cannot detect the magenta colour cast on your monitor. When you view my image, what colour is the plumage in my image.