Roseate Spoonbill

This is somewhat of an environmental image showing the vegetation on the shore of the pond where this Roseate was nesting. Seen in Louisiana back in May of this year.

Canon 7D2, 400mm DO II, 1.4x TC III, monopod
ISO 400, f5.6, 1/1600s

Any comments appreciated.

You may only download this image to demonstrate post-processing techniques.

Beautiful bird, very nicely captured Allen!

Excellent flight image, Allen. Well composed too. I think you made very good use of the even lighting. The colors look a bit flat especially in the background, so you might try selectively bumping up the saturation a bit.

A great in flight capture of this Spoonbill, Allen.

Excellent contraast between the green BG and the Pink plumage. Well composed.

Great wing position and eye, Allen and beautiful techs. I don’t know if you have any extra canvas, but I think this might work even better a bit higher in the frame.

Hi Allen,

I like the soft lighting of this shot. You could bump the saturation in the BG slightly. Well done…Jim