Pink-footed Shearwater

[Dan Brown]

I captured this a couple weeks ago from a boat in Monterey Bay. I clipped the lower wing but I really liked the BG, so, I added canvas to the bottom and did my best to reconstruct the wing tip. C&C welcome.

ps. BG seems noisey in the uploaded jpg? I double checked the master file and see none?
pps. Shoulda fixed the blown whites! My bad!

Camera Model: NIKON D300, handheld with shoulder stock
Shutter speed: 1/2000 sec
Aperture: 7.1
Exposure mode: Manual
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Multi-segment
ISO: 800
Lens: VR 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6D
Focal length: 400mm
Focal length: 600mm (in 35mm film)
VR Image Stabilization: On
AF mode: AF-C

[Ron Sprunger]

Dan I like the image, sharp and good comp. I like the vertical comp for the layering of colors in the sky. I might take a little off bottom and right, but that's just my taste. To my eye the whites on flank are blown, and the image has a blue/cyan cast. Here I've added red to cyan and yellow to blue, plus linear burn on the flank and beak. What do you think?

[Dan Brown]

Dan I like the image, sharp and good comp. I like the vertical comp for the layering of colors in the sky. I might take a little off bottom and right, but that's just my taste. To my eye the whites on flank are blown, and the image has a blue/cyan cast. Here I've added red to cyan and yellow to blue, plus linear burn on the flank and beak. What do you think?

Looks good Ron! Thanks. I honestly can't see the color cast but your version does look good!

[Robert Holguin]

Hello there. Wonderful shot. Great flight pose and the colors in the sky are great. I really like the repost.
Well done.

[Mital Patel]

Dan

Beautiful Image and that 80-400 worked really well on IQ. Like the brilliant colored bg here.
That direct sun spot just on belly after wing shadow got blown out and from raw you can recover that.

[Petros Petrou]

I like the pose and the background color. Good job on the wing tip. The repost looks much better

[Doug Brown]

Happy to see you posting some images Dan! Did Nicki contact you? Nice pose and I like the BG, although I might crop just a little tighter. Good suggestions above.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Dan, what a nice BG. I also like the flat wing position. Vertical comp. works well as it does justice to the bands in the BG.

[Dan Brown]

Happy to see you posting some images Dan! Did Nicki contact you? Nice pose and I like the BG, although I might crop just a little tighter. Good suggestions above.

Thanks All! Doug, yes Nicki did email me. California is waiting for her arrival!