In Flight Pelican - Breeding Plumage

Posted by Shawn Stovall on Sat Mar 13, 2004 5:11 pm

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My first post here at this forum. I am new to photography and have owned my equipment for about 6 months.
Taken at Lake Texoma on the OK/TX Border about 3 weeks ago.
We had a massive fish kill, in a shallow pool just off of Texoma due to Golden Alga last month. The Pelicans, Gulls, Cormorants, and scavengers were having a field day. Unfortunately thousands and thousands of fish died.

Canon D60, 100-400 IS, Overcast conditions shot at ISO 800, ss 1/160
75% of Full Frame, PS CS post processing for levels and USM.

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by Jim Neely on Sat Mar 13, 2004 6:30 pm

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Well done, Shawn.

Welcome to NSN. Good to see you here.

This image of the white pelican is nice. It may be a tad hot around the head, but there's nice detail on the underside.

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by Wayne Ellis on Sat Mar 13, 2004 6:33 pm

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Shawn, well placed in the frame, cheers m8t.

Comments and reposts welcome

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by Heather Forcier on Sat Mar 13, 2004 7:38 pm

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Great catch of this beauty in flight! I happen to really like the White Pelicans, saw them myself for the first time in Texas last April.

What caused the fish kill? At a shallow pond near where I grew up in New England, there was often a "winter kill" effect and hundreds of carp would die over the winter, leaving a feast for scavengers in the spring. The shallow water with much of the surface frozen leaves very little oxygen for the fish and the larger fish, with more oxygen requirements, die off first.

Anyway, I digress! Glad to see you posting, welcome to NatureScapes.Net!

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by Bill Whala on Sat Mar 13, 2004 8:56 pm

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Welcome to NSN, Shawn. This is an excellent shot of this pelican. I look forward to seeing more of your work.

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by LindaY on Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:13 pm

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Nice shot, Shawn. It looks like I need to take a weekend and drive south to Lake Texoma. I didn't know pelicans flew this far inland. I have not seen any up here in Tulsa.

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by Alan Murphy on Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:51 pm

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Shawn, welcome to NSN. Awesome first post, especially for only shooting for six months.

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by Laura Stiefel on Sun Mar 14, 2004 8:03 am

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Welcome to NSN Shawn! This is a great first post. I'm amazed by the smoothness of the BG at ISO 800 on the D60. It looks like you've certainly made the most out of your first 6 months of bird photography and your PS skills look to already be well developed. I'm looking forward to more!

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by Yanni on Sun Mar 14, 2004 8:09 am

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Nice shot and well composed. Very well done. Welcome to the NSN Shawn.

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by Harvey Edelman on Sun Mar 14, 2004 5:38 pm

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Very well done. Just a bit of an oversharpening halo around the wings. Welcome to NSN.

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by Juli Wilcox on Sun Mar 14, 2004 11:34 pm

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Hi Shawn---welcome and a nice first post! I would consider enclosing just the bird with the lasso and applying USM to avoid the halo. Alternately, you might try a larger Threshold when there is a plain background like this.

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