Ibis

Gallery: AvianPosted June 28, 2012186 views7 comments

Canon EOS 7D
EF400mm f/5.6L USM
6/27/2012 – 4:59:21 PM
1/1000 sec
Manual
f/5.6
ISO 400
Handheld
Raw, LR3, CS5, 61% of FF

The water in the pond behind us rose 4 feet because of Tropical Storm Debby, and there's lots of space now for wading birds to actually wade rather than fish from the bank. This is actually in a neighbor's yard, because the pond in our yard is now 10 feet from our house (alligators and all), and the birds fly away when we open the back door.

This isn't a normal head position, and the position of the head makes a catchlight almost impossible, but I like the position of the bill because of the reflection.

Comments, opinions and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by John Tobias on June 28, 2012 at 8:26 AM

Nice activity photo. good detail. I do feel there is a magenta cast and needs to be rotated to straighten out tilt to left. Hope you don't get flooded out. Thanks for sharing.

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Comment posted by Rick Turner on June 28, 2012 at 9:05 AM

I like the shot very much and agree with John on the two nits. Very sharp for handheld and crop.

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Comment posted by Luke Ormand on June 28, 2012 at 11:41 AM

Glad you have weathered the storm with minimal negative impacts. I'm sure the birds are happy - though one could argue there is already plenty of water in Florida for them!

The only issue I have with this image is it needs to be straightened - the photo is tilted heavily to the left. A clockwise rotation of a 5-10 degrees should solve it.

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Comment posted by Bill Maile on June 28, 2012 at 11:55 AM

What everyone else said Barb, a very nice shot indeed!!

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Comment posted by Walt Sterneman on June 28, 2012 at 12:25 PM

Pretty bird, nothing more to add but try to keep dry and send some rain to the Midwest.

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on June 28, 2012 at 3:23 PM

Nice capture Barbara! I like the Ibis picking at his leg (always like behavior, just one of my things). I agree with the rotation. With a reflection like this, try to line up the eye vertically with the reflected eye. Makes it much easier.

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Comment posted by Keith Bauer on June 28, 2012 at 9:42 PM

Very nice capture. Agree with the other commenters on the rotation. I also see a magenta cast. I pulled the larger version and opened in Photoshop. You do not have a color profile embedded in the image. That will cause an issue for color rendering. You should always embed the sRGB color profile in images posted on the web as that is the profile browsers understand (if they are color managed at all).

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