When the weather is cold and skies are white i love to experiment with "high key" photography and white subjects like these Eurasian Spoonbills are amongst my favorites to photograph on such days.
greetings,
Jeroen Stel
Canon Eos 1D Mark III
Shutter speed: 1/1000 sec
Aperture: F 9
Exposure mode: AV
Exposure compensation: + 1
Flash:no
Flash exposure compensation:
Metering mode: Evaluative
Drive mode: AI Servo
ISO: 400
Lens: Canon 600mm F4
Focal length:780 mm
AF mode: Auto Focus
Handheld
Levels/Curves/USM/Contrast/Saturation/Noise Ninja/Home stewed Sharpening-mix/ Adobe Photoshop CS5
Just the right exposure here, nice transillumination without the whiteout effect you sometimes get.
Very interesting to see these guys compared to our spoonbills. In the US, they are semi tropical birds, but yours are obviously much hardier.
I think the image would present better at the full size of 1024 on the horizontal, would show up much more subtle detail.