It's funny how the background is pretty desaturated, it makes the bird stand out pretty well ^0^
Nice shot

Good composition; I agree that the bird pops out nicely against the desaturated background.

Very nice!

Excellent!!

I know squat about photagraphy,but nothing looks desaturated to me.Maybe it looks that way because of the motion of the waterfall?Anyways,nice composition Christinee.^_^

Nice Ibis for holding the pose so that he is in sharp detail while the exposure allowed for movement in the water.

What a great shot!

P.S. How do you like the Digital EOS Rebel? I'm torn between the rebel and the new Sony 8 megapixel digital camera for the same price - thoughts?

DigitalDust: I have got same question in my head, but after I have seen photos from both cameras and had an opportunity to hold EOS300D with Sigma lens 70-200 / 2,8 I am ready to hold thumb up for EOS. (Respectively I am going to buy it within one month )
EOS 10D & 300D chips has much lesser noise than Sony 828. Plus opportunity to mount different lenses will give you total freedom in creative photography.


Perhaps Christinee will be so kind and will release parameters: Lens, ISO, F-stop and shutter speed
Since there isn't any record in EXIF I can only bet it's Canon EF-S 15-55 / 3,5 - 5,6 @ 55 on ISO 200 with 1/200 held in hands. Am I right ?

About the photo: There is visible motion blur. DOF would be quite shorter - to blur distracting parts from the background. Otherwise it's nice Ibis

Great Photo!


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Nice opposition in colors, details and motion.
When inert beings look more alive than actually alive ones. =)

*Like it very much*

Thank you for all the wonderful comments!

I just got the Rebel in November, and as you can tell, I'm having a lot of fun with it and still getting used to the ability to manually set all the specifics of it. Previous to that, I had a Sony Mavica (with the cd's as the media), which I was thrilled with but always felt constricted by the digital-ness of it. Before that I had a Nikon N70 which was what got me started on photograph.

I love the Canon Rebel mostly because of the interchangable lens and the features of a traditinal camera. That was the main selling point on the camera for me, and probably the only reason I upgraded from my Mavica.

As for specifics on the actual photo, I used a Sigma 25-300 mm lens (my favorite for the versitility). For this picture, the lens was set to about 260mm. F-Stop was 5.6 with 1/200 and yes, it was hand held. I was quite a distance away from the actual bird, which is why I used the zoom lens.

Christine

i just saw a critique on like 20 of the newest digital camera's or highest rated or something and the rebel was the editors choice for amerature photography. grr..*wishing i had money*. i love this shot. the movement of the waterfall makes the ibis POP...the stillness against the motion. it's peaceful

Great one! Simply Great!

wow looks realy nice

amazing...