Here Comes the Sun -cue Beatles

[Randy Stout]

Anhinga, back side of pond, Venice Rookery, at Artie's recently completed IPT
This fellow was most cooperative, and posed for a bunch of us for quite a while.
Tried a variety of settings, different camera/lens combos. The dark areas in the water caused by shadows of trees on opposite side of pond.

D700 600 f/4.5 1/4000s ISO 640 Gitzo//Wimberley

Post: CS5 selective sharpening, curves, minor water clean up, crop from bottom

Advice and thoughts always appreciated

Cheers

Randy

[Doug Brown]

You positioned yourself perfectly in between the two dark areas of the water. The backlighting looks great, and the bird struck a nice pose for you. I might darken the water around the tail feathers a little to accentuate the backlighting down there.

[Indranil Sircar]

Looks excellent, Randy. Agree with Doug on the perfect positioning. Love the rim light outlining the neck.

[Todd Frost]

Nice rimlight to this Randy. Good position of bird in frame. Good idea from Doug on darkening the water near tail. Well done.
TFS
Todd

[Greg Basco]

Randy, really great mood to this image. I think it works very well.

Cheers,
Greg Basco

[denise ippolito]

Randy, I like the backlight on this and the pose is nice.. I didn't get any of these shots.

[Ken Watkins]

Its allright

[Arthur Morris]

I knew that there was a reason that I wanted to push you out of that spot.... You were in the perfect position with the right lens.