Anhinga in the Wind

[Mike Landwehr]

The wind was helping this anhinga dry its feathers after a session in the water at Anhinga Trail one morning. Removed a feather and couple of brown spots from the bill. Adjusted the exposure, boosted the saturation of the eye, slight shadows adjustment in shadows/highlights, cropped and sharpened. Any C&C appreciated.

1D Mark II N
500 mm + 1.4x
ISO 200
1/160 @ f/5.6
Tripod

[Randy Stout]

Mike:

The punk hair do is great. Well exposed with pretty good detail in the blacks and whites holding well.

I like the overall feel of the BG, and like the very gentle pattern effect in most of the image. I would consider smoothing the transition of the edges of the more distinct band running up to the bill. Wouldn't take much at all.

Wish the head was just a sliver more towards us.

Cheers

Randy

[Dumay de Boulle]

Very nice, exp looks good and the BG is great...Enjoying the windswept look!

[Jonathan Ashton]

A really eye catching image, I love the ruffled feathers and the facial details. The background really sets the image off.

[Wynand van Wyk]

I really like the feather pose as well. The background is amazing with great colours!

Truly well captured.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Love the blown feathers quite different from the wet seal like appearance. Nice angle and exposure too.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Randy stole the words right out of my mouth!! Nice composition.

Even with such a low ISO 1/160s. seems like a slow SS for what looks like good light. Typo?

[Mike Landwehr]

A very astute observation, Daniel. The image was badly overexposed. In converting from raw, I adjusted exposure -1.45. So, the correct shutter speed at ISO 200 would have been closer to 1/500!