Ugliest bird on Earth

[phillipb]

Heavily cropped from original. So much so that I didn't have to resize for the web

[kipper]

Awwwh, that's not nice to talk about the Australian White Ibis like that.

[Matt. K]

Love the background to this image. Also like the "burr of light dangling on a razors edge".

[phillipb]

Awwwh, that's not nice to talk about the Australian White Ibis like that.

Sorry Kipper, Can't help it. I think it would be more at home in an episode of Star Wars.

[yeocsa]

I like it. Creative play of exposure and backlighting. Wish you had use some flash. Insufficient light on the bird is causing the details to be lacking.

regards,

Arthur

[waspo]

Love the pic. It's great! I love the way the background looks as though moving everytime I look at it.
...or maybe I've just been staring at this monitor too long!

[Jamie]

Awwwh, that's not nice to talk about the Australian White Ibis like that.

Arnt they also know as 'tip turkey's'?

Love the background as most do, but that bird is just soooooo ugly!

Jamie

[the foto fanatic]

Awwwh, that's not nice to talk about the Australian White Ibis like that.

Arnt they also know as 'tip turkey's'?

Love the background as most do, but that bird is just soooooo ugly!

Jamie

And a huge pest. We have them moving en masse into the Brisbane CBD, and they are so greedy that they rob the food of all the other birds, even sparrows and seagulls. Because of their size and their beaks, they rifle through rubbish bins and leave garbage strewn everywhere.
They orta be culled. (And I love animals.)
Nice pic, however.

[sirhc55]

Nice pic - and I am sure his/her mother would love him/her

[PiroStitch]

For an ugly bird, that's a top pic love how you managed to capture the water droplets

[meicw]

Great pic. Love the background and the way the water has been captured at the end of the beak is excellent.

Regards
Meicw

[Matty B]

I call 'em tip budgies (not turkeys) - turkeys can't fly like these can! Uglyness is in the eye of the beholder too, this is a very interesting exposure, highly original and well worth looking at many times. Well done, it's a goodie.

[mudder]

Very catching image, terrific background and the light sparkling on the beak with droplets, really like this. If it's a crop maybe a little more width to the right hand side?

[phillipb]

Hi Andrew,
Took your advise and tried a different crop.
Only problem is, I found it hard to replicate the colour adjustments from the first one because I did them after cropping. Still not sure if this is an improvement though.

[mudder]

I'm amazed at just how much the different crop seems to change the image entirely.

Just had a play with a couple of other crops, cropped out the vertical drops on the extreme right and take off the bottom and it's a different feel...

Great image though, still find it catching...

[kipper]

I actually read an article on actions and some guy said before he modifies a picture he starts recording an action. Atleast that way he has every step he's taken to get to the end result and it's repeatable and configurable (ie. you can remove certain steps of the action so that you achieve only the desired result).

[big pix]

The ugly bird seems very happy with it's self......... and a better crop....

cheers
bp

[bobrob]

2nd crop 100% better and nice lighting but what a poxy bird
bobrob

[ozimax]

The little "diamond" of light is quite spectacular, great image, Max