Great Blue Heron

Gallery: AvianPosted December 3, 201293 views3 comments

This Great Blue Heron was sitting and waiting for dinner to come by, I was struck by the likeness of the reflecting twig growing out of the water and the similarity to the Blue's legs in the water. God's creations are amazing.

Sony a77
70-400 f4.5 G Series zoom @400mm
ISO 250
1/125 sec @ f6.7
tripod

LR4 raw conversion
PS5 correction
15% crop

Comments

3 comments

Comment posted by Ron Bielefeld on December 3, 2012 at 4:09 PM

A nice image with good details in the bird Rick. I would prefer the bird be lit and the BG be shadowed. As it is the very bright BG really distracts me.

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Comment posted by Richard Ditch on December 3, 2012 at 5:45 PM

I agree with Ron about the lighting. It would be less of a problem with the brightly lit leaves at the top cropped off.

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Comment posted by Wayne Willison on December 4, 2012 at 5:49 PM

I don't think it matters much so long as there's separation between fg and bg. Nice detail.

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