Great Blue Heron

Gallery: AvianPosted February 11, 2012105 views4 comments

I like the heron, not so much the background. Would have liked to have had more room on the right, but adding canvass was not an option due to the trees. Critiques and comments welcome.

Canon 7D
Canon 100-400 mm
f7.1
1/2000 s
ISO 400
focal length 310 mm

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Patrick O'Healy on February 11, 2012 at 11:01 AM

This shot capture the essence of the bird in flight. I like the way his beak is open. Too bad about your inability to add space on the right.

Registered on March 13, 2011, 326 Posts, 1679 Comments

Comment posted by Allen Brooks on February 11, 2012 at 11:21 PM

Nice sharp shot, great wing detail. I like the open mouth. Eye crisply in focus. Background nicely out of focus. I don't know what post-processing program you have, but in PS5, one thing to try would be to add a bit of canvas on the right, select the canvas and do an Edit-->Fill-->Content Aware and see what happens.

Registered on July 27, 2011, 262 Posts, 2597 Comments

Comment posted by Jaymes Dempsey on February 12, 2012 at 4:40 PM

I like the action here a lot, Jerry. That open beak is really nice. The background isn't too bad--pretty nicely out of focus. The one thing I might consider would be to clone or crop out the twigs on the mid left and the upper left corner...they just jump out at me a bit.
Otherwise, great shot,
Jaymes

Registered on June 28, 2010, 47 Posts, 590 Comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on February 12, 2012 at 5:40 PM

Good self-criticism, Jerry. It does look as if the white on the cheek might be blown a bit too. If you were shooting RAW, you might be able to bring it down. The bg is a tough one. I don't know what you can do about it.

Registered on January 28, 2008, 1767 Posts, 23192 Comments