Great Blue Heron

Gallery: AvianPosted August 22, 2011105 views7 comments

The sun was on the wrong side so no nice yellow eye. I also shot this with a 100-400l lens with a 2x converter so it may be a little soft. I sharpened it as much as I could with out going over? I hope.
7D
f11
1/160
360mm (still had the 2x on the 100-400 just backed out for a second for different comp)
iso 800

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7 comments

Comment posted by Gary Gulash on August 23, 2011 at 1:11 AM

Very colorful setting, I really like the pink reflections in the water. The bird does look a bit soft I agree. I wonder how this would look underexposed to render the bird as a silhouette, just an alternate thought. Any chance this might be a Great Blue Heron?

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Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on August 23, 2011 at 1:39 AM

The bird is soft, I'm afraid. I've found it difficult to get really sharp images with a teleconverter, esp. a 2.0 teleconverter, on a telephoto zoom lens.

To me the softness and the reflected pinks suggest trying some art filters to give the whole photo that painterly feel.

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Comment posted by Ron Bielefeld on August 23, 2011 at 6:54 AM

Todd, this is a great blue heron. Just FYI. I like the overall comp, but it is tough to judge overall sharpness on the bird with the bird being small in the frame and the image being 720px. Posting 1200px versions really helps in this regard.

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Comment posted by David Hemmings on August 23, 2011 at 1:02 PM

Looks like a Great Blue Heron, very pretty picture

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Comment posted by Todd Bielby on August 23, 2011 at 4:19 PM

Ah Great Blue Heron. I should of guess that. The reason I didn't is because I seen two Great Egret's around this one and it looked very similar but the feathers seemed very rough. I thought blue Heron's were better looking.

So I guess this lens combo really doesn't work. Which kinda sticks really because the next step is a 500 or 600L lens or 5 to 10 thousand dollars. kinda of pricey unless im making money at this.

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Comment posted by Todd Bielby on August 23, 2011 at 4:22 PM

Oh and thanks for the suggestion Jim. I will definitely give that a try.

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Comment posted by Todd Bielby on August 23, 2011 at 10:18 PM

here is what I came up. Thanks again jim.

Registered on March 10, 2011, 169 Posts, 392 Comments