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Cattle Egret

by Jerry Austin

Gallery: AvianPosted April 22, 2012109 views4 comments
Cattle Egret captured at the Dallas, Texas rookery on the UT Southwestern Medical Center Campus. Critiques and comments welcome.

Canon 7D
Canon 100-400mm lens @ 400mm
f11
Shutter Speed 1/500 s
ISO 100
Exp Comp -0.33

Comments

4 comments
Comment posted by Rick Turner on April 22, 2012 at 9:52 AM
Jerry,
Great color and pose. :toast:
Registered on February 18, 2012, 534 Posts, 2755 Comments
Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on April 22, 2012 at 12:44 PM
Beautiful breeding plummage in this fellow! Nice pose, and nicely-framed by the large branches.
Fine image!
Sandy
Registered on November 24, 2003, 3937 Posts, 12909 Comments
Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on April 22, 2012 at 2:46 PM
Nice composition and lovely capture of this breeding male. I'm at my laptop, which doesn't have the highest image quality, but I see some speckling in some of the barbs; it might be over sharpening. Easily fixed.
Registered on August 28, 2006, 1240 Posts, 8506 Comments
Comment posted by Ron Bielefeld on April 23, 2012 at 4:22 PM
A nice overall comp Jerry. I love the look of these birds in breeding plumage. To me the saturation of the blue sky seems a bit high. Also, I looks like the entire image may have been sharpened. If so, I might back off on the sharpening a bit and apply it only to the bird and perch and not to the BG. Just some suggestions based on too little information to make them.
Registered on December 6, 2008, 360 Posts, 7132 Comments