American White Pelican

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image at Lake Morton in Lakeland, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 500mm PF, camera and lens supported by a Oben carbon fiber monopod with a Wimberly MonoGimbal head
1/2000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV +1 ISO 400 Auto 1 WB, image captured at 500mm (750mm 35mm Equivalent)
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2022 and Topaz Denoise AI
Cropped for composition and presentation

P.S. Learn more about Lake Morton in the BAA Middle Florida Photography Site Guide that Artie and I co-authored. It is available at this link https://birdsasart-shop.com/the-baa-...ic-site-guide/

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Joe ... works as presented .
nice details and sharpness
well processed
tfs Andreas

[Jonathan Ashton]

Super colours and details good clean image, not too sure about the crop. Maybe this was for good reason i.e. to eliminate other features.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Super colours and details good clean image, not too sure about the crop. Maybe this was for good reason i.e. to eliminate other features.

Hi Jon, thank you for viewing and commenting. I think your right regarding the crop, actually not sure why I went with a 16x9. Here is more traditional 2x3.

[Jonathan Ashton]

That's better!!