Spoonbill (Eurasian)

[Frank Schauf]

At Texel, 5DMII, EF500 & EX 1.4x II, 1/2000 sec, f/7.1, ISO 320, freehand.

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[Sachin Saraf]

Beautiful Image Frank.

[PRABIR BHATTACHARYYA]

Liked the image, Frank.

[Grace Scalzo]

Beautiful image, Frank. Nice eye contact and pose.

[Geir Jensen]

Great image. I like the comp and the HA.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Frank, I like the composition, the head angle and the raised crest feathers. some areas look a little hot.

[Arthur Morris]

KD stole my critique. Love the look back HA and the raised crest. Neck looks hot-a Linear Burn might help. Try starting from scratch and re-converting with no RGB values in the WHITEs greater than 230. (Use the Recovery Slider to get there...)

[Arthur Morris]

Prabir and Sachin, If you like an image, please let us know what you like about it. We try very hard to avoid becoming just another "great shot" forum and we need your help. Thanks :S3:.

[arash_hazeghi]

lovely pose and sweet light, I agree with toning down the chest area a bit (red channel)

[Frank Schauf]

Thank you all for the feedback.
Now, I've reduced the highlights and the red channel, I think, so it looks better.

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[Sidharth Kodikal]

Gorgeous bird, beautiful light and lovely head turn. I'm looking at the repost on my crappy work monitor, but I would tone down the hot areas selectively without darkening the entire image.

[Frank Schauf]

Sidharth Yes, that was my mistake.

Here my last version, I think now it better.

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[Sidharth Kodikal]

Wow, the last repost looks just superb to me. Awesome job recovering details there!

[Geir Jensen]

Repost is very good . Wery vell done

[jack williamson]

This last repost is very good Frank! HA, bg, and comp are very good. Love the blue water.

Jack

[Arthur Morris]

The repost is an improvement though possibly a bit overdone as the WHITEs are a bit grayed out. As I have learned through personal experience it is a fine line :).