2nd Chance Anhinga Displ
by Dennis Plank
This was one of my favorites from my Florida trip with Mike Ramy, so I thought I'd post it again for 2nd chance week. It was originally posted on May 5th. I did go back and tweak the face slightly in LR. Here's the original text from the first post:
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">There were quite a few Anhingas at the small rookery we visited in Florida. I'd been seeing some of the males going through an elaborate display routine from vertical extension through this pose to almost upside down (I'll probably post that pose as well) but there were intervening branches in most cases. Finally on my third and last visit to the rookery this one was displaying in the clear and Mike got the boat close enough for some decent exposures. I do wish the sky had been clear that day, but it doesn't help to argue with the weather gods.
7D2, Sigma 150-600 mm @ 600 mm, hand held from boat, f/8, 1/800, iso 640, manual exposure. Processed in LR5 & CS6. Cropped to 7.8 MP in a 4x5 format (that's about 85% of original height, so not really a large crop-just removing a bunch of excess from the sides). Taken at 3:31 pm on March 29th.</div>
Your comments and criticisms are really helpful and very much appreciated.
Comments
12 commentsAwesome photo Dennis
One of my favorite images from all of your posts. This reminds me of an Audubon print due to the pose. Perhaps a higher placement in the frame and maybe a slight bump in brightness are my only suggestions. Still, an excellent image.................Jim
Very cool 2nd chance that was also a last chance since this was from our outing on the next to the last day of your 10 day visit on the river.
Sweet pose indeed, well seen . . .