Anhinga at Sunset Photo

Photographer’s Note

Shot at Crandon Park, Key Biscayne, Florida

I shot the image using raw. Did conversion in Adobe ACR. As the lighting was poor at this hour, I used s/h tool and level adjustments. I still had too much detail in the bird so I lassoed the bird and adjusted its exposure to give a darker sillouhette image.

Finished the image with a digital velvia plug in to boost saturation and then used Fred Miranda sharpen plug in for the 20d.

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Dave2006 (321) 2006-09-22 11:34

Hello Michael, certainly an effective photo. It caught my eye right away. Simple, yet dramatic, and well captured. Wonderful colour, great silhouette by the bird and branches. What Photoshop CS processing did you do?

Vanni (172) 2006-09-22 11:41

Great shot! The colours are just perfect. However, the first glance i thought the bird was some kind of pterodytcl. Although you might not have expected such a comment this photo really triggered my imagination. :)

Timmok (800) 2006-09-22 11:58

Hi Michael

Lovely picture. Great framing and colours. Nice sharpness of the silhouettes.

Thanks for sharing

digi-mom (1064) 2006-09-22 12:05

Beautifully simplistic in style and colours. Lovely. :)

rajju (1317) 2006-09-22 12:35

what i like in this picture is the sharpness.
tfs, raj

DarkoG (2284) 2006-09-22 13:21

hi Michael

Very nice and interesting sunset shot. Different from majority of sunset photo here on TE.
Good work
Regards Darko

Albrecht (10916) 2006-09-22 14:02

Hi Micheal
What a beautiful silhouet you have captured here;Good colours and sharp too.
-greetings Albrecht-

limule (3825) 2006-09-22 14:49

It is beautiful. This bird is a shag (french: cormoran, latin: phalacrocorax). A bird who eat fish; Chinese are used to sample the fishes form the throw of the bird. I like the non uniformity of the orange light, as well as the detail of the tree. It s really a wonderful picture.

priyasri_80 (363) 2006-09-22 15:36

Nice plesant color photos. the pine branch and the bird is absolutely fantastic.
Priya

arturo (31) 2006-09-22 17:27

Hi Michael,

i like this fragile compo very much...i do not mind the fine post processing but i do appreciate every minute it took to present it the way it appears right now...excellent timing with the bird about to get into action...cheers, arturo

jmdias (18795) 2006-09-22 18:48

michael

it was a hard work to make this photo and you got a very nice image.The bird is very nice put and the branch is very nice to see, the color you got is nice too. I would like to "save" all my not so good photos how you did.

jorge

woodyman (222) 2006-09-23 7:18

Great composition with the branch and position of the bird plus simple colours - the silhouetting you did works well to not distract with details. Thanks for detailing what you did as its very helpful for ideas to try out
Cheers
Ian