Dropping In

Gallery: AvianPosted April 2, 2014129 views11 comments

Captured this male Great Egret dropping into the nest with some building material. I liked the trailing breeding plumage. Processed using Photoshop CS3, NeatImage and LightZone. Comments and critiques welcome.

Canon 7D
Canon 200-400 f4 L IS
f7.1
1/1250s
ISO 160
Exp Comp -0.67
Focal Length 200mm

Comments

11 comments

Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on April 2, 2014 at 11:01 PM

Nice catch!
Fine detail, great pose, and clean BG.
Maybe just a bit brighter and a tad more room below the feet?
The blues look a bit over-saturated from here, but maybe just my monitor.
Sweet!

Sandy

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Comment posted by Charlie VanTassel on April 2, 2014 at 11:05 PM

I like that you got everything so sharp from end to end. That blue does seem a little electric.

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Comment posted by Jim Hackley on April 2, 2014 at 11:56 PM

I like the flight pose and stick in mouth. As others have mentioned the bright blue sky kinds of over powers the rest of the image for me and I am not sure how to deal with this without leaving a halo effect. Good job of dealing with the whites as the larger image does not show any blown highlights.

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Comment posted by Hans Overduin on April 3, 2014 at 5:54 AM

Hello Jerry, you 'like' the trail of breeding plumage ? It's great ! I would go through the roof with this

. Wonderful capture ! Cheers, Hans

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Comment posted by John Neukirch on April 3, 2014 at 8:23 AM

A truly whimsical image with those feathers, a cool capture. It does seem a bit crowed into that bottom left corner though. On my monitor also the sky appears a little too blue.

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Comment posted by Keith Bauer on April 3, 2014 at 8:50 AM

Hi Jerry:

Wonderful pose for the great egret. I too like the trailing plumage. As noted by a couple of comments, the whites could stand to go brighter. I pulled the larger version. The whitest white was around 200 so you had plenty of headroom. The blue sky (even if it really was that color) is a distraction. Here's a version with whiter whites, and a toned down sky for your thoughts.

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Comment posted by Jerry Austin on April 3, 2014 at 9:04 AM

Keith,

I like what you did. Thanks for taking the time to work on it.

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on April 3, 2014 at 3:45 PM

Lovely detail and an interesting action. Sandy has nailed my observations, so I will just say ditto.

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Comment posted by Rick Cloran on April 3, 2014 at 9:16 PM

I'm with Hans in loving the trialing breeding plumage. I think Keith's report captures all of the improvement suggestions. Super shot.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on April 3, 2014 at 10:10 PM

A very sweet image, Jerry. Excellent catch. I like the processing approach that Keith showed.

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on April 5, 2014 at 1:47 PM

Excellent flight shot Jerry, love the plumes hanging out behind, I think Keith's repost nails it.

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