Originally posted by Paul the Sunman You are right Terry. It is a male, but without the spectacular blue plumage yet. Good catch.
Thanks. Quite a few of these blokes around at the moment, as well a those showing the last of their blue suits. I suspect this may be a youngster who hasn't had a blue suit yet. Shot at the Zoo.
Here's another shot from the Zoo. A Black-necked Stork, previously known as the Jabiru.
K-1, DFA 150-450, handheld.
Much easier to get the shot at the Zoo, but trying to get a good exposure of this lass (females have a yellow eye, males a black eye) was quite another thing. I exposed for the brilliant white, which left quite a lot else very dark, and difficult to correct in darktable without the image looking a bit odd.
In the end I resorted to saving out 4 tif copies. One close to correct exposure for the whites, one at-0.5EV, one at +1.0EV and one at +1.5EV, then used enfuse to generate an image from all four.
As a result the usual shot settings are not in the exif of this image.
The original was shot at 150mm, f 4.5, 1/800s, ISO 100.
Cheers,
Terry