White Ibis

Gallery: AvianPosted July 19, 2011130 views7 comments

From Ft DeSoto last February. These ibis are almost totally fearless of photographers. Sometimes they would just walk right past me as close as 8 feet away. Larger image included.

Olympue E-3 ZD300 F2.8 Wimberley I, ISO 200 1/8000 f2.8 -0.7EV, slight rotational correction

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by John Robinson on July 19, 2011 at 5:54 PM

Cracking shot Bill and great white control. Great DOF at 2.8 too !
Slightly big in frame for me but not the end of the world.
Cheers
JohnR

Registered on March 2, 2008, 535 Posts, 2453 Comments

Comment posted by Ray Whitt on July 19, 2011 at 6:59 PM

Love the colors, the blue water and blue eye and the pink legs and bill, beautiful shot.

Ray

Registered on May 27, 2011, 92 Posts, 2619 Comments

Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on July 19, 2011 at 7:57 PM

Nice pose and detail - and great eye. I love these guys!
The water seems over-saturated and un-natural - you might bring it down a bit and see what you think.
Sandy

Registered on November 24, 2003, 3937 Posts, 12909 Comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on July 19, 2011 at 10:27 PM

Excellent, Bill. Perfect exposure, a nice pose and the ripple ring adds a great finishing touch.

Registered on January 28, 2008, 1767 Posts, 23192 Comments

Comment posted by Richard Ditch on July 20, 2011 at 4:01 PM

Simple and clean with good sharpness and detail. I'd prefer more DOF for the tail and would have traded off some of the extra shutter speed for a small aperture.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 1031 Posts, 12705 Comments

Comment posted by Jim Hackley on July 20, 2011 at 4:34 PM

Wonderful pose and look from this ibis, the head area looks sharp but the rear of the bird not as much so Rich D has a good point, otherwise I really like the composition and that you can see the feet under the water, way to go.

Registered on September 17, 2009, 302 Posts, 5535 Comments

Comment posted by Angela McCain on July 23, 2011 at 11:21 AM

I think it's beautiful. Excellent detail. The saturation is probably right-we have a lot of these and that eye is just the perfect color and the water of Ft. DeSoto can be very intense. Agree though a little more DOF would have had him sharp from stem to stern.

Registered on April 19, 2009, 367 Posts, 3589 Comments