Eurasian spoonbill

[Frank Schauf]

This time in better light.

1DMIV, EF 4/600 L IS USM & EX 1.4x III, 1/1600 sec, f/8, ISO 640

Attachment 112430

[Ian Cassell]

Very nice, Frank. Excellent low angle and that red eye is great. I like the splattering water too. I might be tempted to crop out a bit of the blurred FG and make it more pano. A bit of head turn towards you would have improved it, but it works the way it is. TFS.

[Frank Schauf]

Thanks Ian,

here as Pano, but here is the HG then very in the middle.

Attachment 112431

[Ofer Levy]

I like the behaviour and good tehs. The relatively sharp bank doesn't help though. Would consider tighter crop.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Frank, the shooting angle is nice...great moment and timing. I think there is too much space below. I'd have prefered equal room above and below the bird. At that subject distance, with BG so close, opening up the aperture might have helped with the BG.

[Ian Cassell]

Frank, I played a bit with it on a (suboptimal) photo editor here at work (when I should have been working, of course). What do you think of something like this?

[christopher galeski]

nice image,good exposure and detail inthe whites.

[Frank Schauf]

Thanks Ian, the cut is better than mine.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Frank, I like your angle of capture, and good whites on the spoonbill. Overall nice and sharp, and the water between the bill is a nice touch. Your repost in pane # 3 does work better, but as Kaustubh stated, a little more off the bottom wont harm this either.