Little Pied Cormorant

Gallery: AvianPosted December 7, 201372 views3 comments

Another from the Mareeba Wetlands. There are two species that look a lot alike, but the crest is supposed to be diagnostic. I wasn't quite sure what to do with the crop on this one-suggestions are welcome.

5Diii, 300mm f4 ISL + 1.4TC, hand held, f10, 1/1250, iso 800, Av mode with no compensation. Processed in CS6 and cropped to 6.4MP. Taken October 23rd at 7:45 am.

Your comments and criticisms are most appreciated.

Thanks for looking,

Comments

3 comments

Comment posted by Mark Jenkins on December 7, 2013 at 10:16 PM

really good exposure on blacks and whites with great feather detail and pose. Personally I would have cropped out some of the 'empty' space above and below to enlarge the bird where you have good detail. Nice photo Dennis.

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Comment posted by Ray Whitt on December 9, 2013 at 7:14 PM

Really nice handling of the dark and white feathers Dennis, nice detail. I'd consider a horizontal crop.

Ray

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Comment posted by Ákos Lumnitzer on January 14, 2014 at 7:32 PM

Nice photo of our (most likely) most common cormorant. The one you are probably thinking of is the Pied Cormorant, this one.

http://amatteroflight.com/gallery2/v/ausbirds/cormorants/piedco/

Once you've seen them a few times, the differences become easy to tell in the field.

Registered on April 24, 2004, 25 Posts, 510 Comments