Brown Pelican Chick

[Marina Scarr]

I have been following this bird since it's birth a little over 2 wks ago. Have photographed him 3x. I like this pic b/c you can really see the vessels in his pouch and the softness of his "fuzz." It is amazing just how big these birds get soooo fast.

This was shot with a tripod, Canon 30D, 300 F4L + 1.4 TC @ F5.6, 1/400, ISO 420

C & C welcome.

[Jim Poor]

Oh how cute and fuzzy! Some areas of the neck look over sharpened to me, but it may just be the texture there.

[Marina Scarr]

I believe it's actually the texture. I just went and looked at original picture. There was little sharpening on this shot.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the setting, composition and open bill and agree that it looks a bit oversharpened.

[Fabs Forns]

Ever so cute! Really adorable!

It does look over-sharpened, and what you can do is after you re-size (no sharpening to your master file) create a duplicate layer, sharpen so the eye look good. Go to the bottom of the layer palette, choose the third box from left, (Layer mask). click on it. That would give a layer mask to your sharpened layer. Choose the Brush tool, make sure black is the foreground color on your Tools palette, and apint away the sharpening off everything but the eye.

[Marina Scarr]

I have redone the picture with less sharpening. I hope you find it to be in improvement over the first one. Thanks to all of you for the advice.

[Fabs Forns]

Much better, Marina :) In fact, you can add a bit sharpening to the top and tip of the bill. Bu definitely an improvement :)