Roseate Spoonbill

Jim,

that's a great flight shot with complimentary colors and great sharpness. I love it!

very sharp, the only thing that bothers me is the halo around the bottom of the bird.

By "reposts welcome" do you mean a re-edit of your image?

Jim,

This is an excellent flight shot. The low evening light was perfect for eliminating shadows. Well done.

Great flight shot with great sharpness. My flight shot of the RS can't compare to this.

Congrats!!!

Roy

Great fight shot Jim.... I love the light on the bird, exposure is perfect, killer wing position and all sharp!!!!

Looks like a young bird, very pretty

Congratulations!!!!!!

Extraordinary. Wing position, shooting angle, position in frame, exposure, everything works here.

Wonderful shot. I love the wings!

Paulyoly wrote: By "reposts welcome" do you mean a re-edit of your image?

Paul, that means you have permission to repost the image with any changes that you wish to show.

Jim: This is the first post I have seen from this rookery. You did an awesome job with this shot.

Gorgeous shot, Jim. Great DOF and composition.

That's a flying home-run, Jim!!!
Way to go Señor Huesos!!!!

WOW, great stop action everything tack sharp to the tip of the wing, great DOF, great detail, beatiful lighting, fantastic flying image.

Jim
Oh...oh.....oh......what a shot. I love spoonbills and this one is an incredible flight shot.

Jim, You've caught a true beauty in this wonderful image!!!! Great comp, BG, colors and evening light!!!! Simply super!!!

Jim,

The evening light appears to produce a great feeling of depth in the image. This is a great flight shot.

Great detail and wing position! Specifically, I like being able to see the dorsal side of the left wing. BEautiful bird and image! Matthew

The light makes this an artistic experience.

Killer flight shot, Jim. Congratulations!!

Razor sharp Jim. Love the low light making the most of its colors.

my repost Well Jim, i initially was just going to remove the light blue halo around the underside of the bird, but ended up changed a few more things.

I will probably get bashed for adjusting the brightness, but oh well. I first duplicated the layer and changed it to screen, then adjusted the opacity to 30%, then flattened. That lightened it up a little. I added a tiny bit of saturation, not that it need any, color saturation of 8. I also added some contrast with usm 15/50/0

I blew it up to 200% and used the blurr tool in photoshop elements to remove the halo around the bottom of the bird, used a circle of about 4 pixels and just blured out the light blue, just don't get to close to the bird. I've done it using the clone tool as well, which might work better, just clone part of the darker sky over the halo.

The halo might not be that noticeable on some monitors, i see it well on my lcd. All that took me all of 4 minutes.

Am i the only one that see's the sharpening halos? I call it a sharpening halo because it is usually emphasized by sharpening the pic, they are actually there in the original on most shots against a blue sky atleast most of mine, just not that noticeable until you sharpen.

Is it exceptable to put the two pics in the same post?