Juvenile Painted Stork

[Sabyasachi Patra]

This juvenile painted stork was about to land when I photographed it.

Canon EOS 1D Mark IV, Canon EF 400mm f2.8 L IS USM, ISO 200, 1/640, f3.2, EV: +1/3, full frame image.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Mrudul Godbole]

Beautiful pose captured. The low angle enhances the image. The green background looks good. Thanks for sharing.

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Great capture. The green BG looks good. Wish the water had fewer highlights, but of course that is not something you could have helped. Overall a lovely image.
Wondering how f3.2 was sufficient here... ?

[Bibhav Behera]

I like the composition and the limited DOF. Some more space on the left would have been great. Thanks for sharing.

[Sagar Patil]

Shot at the moment, nice angle.

Can be cropped more to get closer view.

EV at 0.3/0.7 would decrease destructing highlights of water?
But then you might need to compromise with details on wings.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Abhishek,
It is based on the distance and focal length as well. The camera reading says the subject distance was 49.70 meters. In this case I was using the 400mm without the converter. At f3.2 and 49.7 meters the depth of field is 1.85m. So you get the coverage of the bird.

On hindsight, I feel f4 would have been even better as I would have got 2.33m depth of field. Remember, I estimated and clicked and the estimation was purely on the basis of my understanding of this lens. I didn't have time to press the dof preview button in the camera.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi