African Spoonbill

[Dumay de Boulle]

Canon 1D MKIII
Canon 500 f4 L IS
AV f6.3
TV 1/6400
ISO 800
Exp -0.33
AWB
RAW file processed n CS5 iMac

Crits apprecited

[gail bisson]

Oooh, I like this. I love the light and the pose is wonderful. Love the dangly feet! Great BG. Love the whites. I might be tempted to clone out the 2 green dark blobs above the birds neck and head. Why did you need such a fast SS?
Gail

[Craig Kerr]

A superb effort Dumay, excellent colours and detail, good landing pose... Two tone back ground works for me.

[Jim Fenton]

For me, birds with wings back coming in for a landing look static rather than dynamic unless they are head on or just touching down. Just my personal thoughts.

Lighting is wonderful, exposure and sharpness are right on.

Looks as though you added 20% to the right side as the delineation is pretty obvious.

I would be tempted to clone out the green foliage above and top right while leaving the one toward the back wing in tact.

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Stunning Bud, the bird really pops nicely and like the two tone BG. I like wing position but can also see you added canvas to the right hand side

[Stu Bowie]

Tack sharp and great job on the whites. I like the landing posture, and another Mankwe BG adds so much more. How's the new location?

[Dumay de Boulle]

Thanks guys...Hadn't posted a image in a while and I felt like posting one....Definitely not my best effort

[Dumay de Boulle]

Gail I normally over expose by a 3rd which would usually slow down SS. I for some reason underexposed, cant remember why or waht I was shooting and then this guy came in so I shot on the same settings which gave me this SS (So not intentional)

[Chad Caswell]

Thats a real beauty Dumay, I love the light you had and captured. very nice BG, pose and spot on focus. Great image.