Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)

fantastic setting with the water surface for this lovely.

Well done. The eye is clearly visible. Guess you got your fun with the camera.
Pictures of landscapes can be realized with f16 as well.:-O

Well done with this one Delia.
Ken

High contrast images are always tricky. Can you choose between single-spot metering and multi-spot metering on your camera? That might be the simplest thing to start with, if you can set it for single-spot metering and then just be sure that you keep that spot on the bird. Still ... even with the high contrast, the camera adjusting for the greatest area (the water) rather than the area of interest (the bird), and then lots of post-process lightening to recover details in the bird (which does at least work, whereas darkening to recover details does not work at all) ... this turned out quite nice. Maybe not all the color and details you were hoping for, but a lovely peaceful image with a sweet pose and all those rings on the water |=)| No need to apologize for this one. It's very soothing to gaze upon :t: :t:

So nicely captured D right down to the water dribbling from its beak

Nicely done in a difficult situation Delia. Super shot.

Lovely capture Delia, very well taken!! Photoshop Elements is brilliant at fixing problems like this.
Dick.

Shooting into the sun is always a killer! No matter what you do PP it never gives you what you want. I'll post a Flickr shot tomorrow that was heavily shadowed only because I never see these guys. Reduce the shadows too much and it gives this grainy look that isn't pleasant at all! Thanks for sharing this one Delia!!

Fantastic timing to catch that falling water. Great job Delia.

Vicki

Playing around with metering settings is still something I have to get on to. It's a never-ending learning curve!!