Great Blue Heron

Photographed at Browns Ferry Park in Tualatin last weekend. It's not the prettiest pond, that's for sure. I do like the heron though.

40D
100-400L @ 400
ISO 640
f5.6
1/400 sec

Nice catch Ryan, How do you like the 40D?

Outstanding portrait!

Cool shot Ryan!

Mike, so far I am really enjoying the 40D. I've been experimenting with several of the new functions, such as the live view, highlight control, and the high speed noise setting that weren't on the 20D. I think when I am working with the images in RAW I can see difference in quality and depth from the 14-bit conversion. I can't say I've found anything I don't like about it. They made some really great upgrades with it, and I believe the IQ is pretty dang good.

This is nice, Ryan. I like the way he's standing in a raining(?) pond.

Say, how do you like the 100-400? Have you ever used the 70-200 also (wondering about trading it in for one like yours)?

Kevin

Really nice---good color in the beak & a tack sharp eye!

JG

Kevin, I have not used the 70-200. I'm pretty happy with the 100-400, but I haven't used it enough to give a really good assessment. It's my least used lens since it only gets taken out when I'm going to a wildlife area or something like that. My experience with it so far has been good. I feel it is sharp, and the IS works well if hand holding. The push/pull zoom is a little awkward, but you get used to it. I have used a 1.4x extender with it with mixed results.

Oh, it's not raining, its just crud in the pond.

I like it too. Nice to see others here doing birds. The contrast between the water and the bird works. The head might be a tad oversharpened though.

Nice catch Ryan. You got a good pose and it's pretty sharp. I agree it may be a little over sharpened.

Yep, a little oversharpened, my little auto-sharpening thing for the web doesn't always do the best job

Great pose on the bird, Ryan. I really like this.

Great to see some wildlife on this forum. Well done. I might be tempted to clone out the darker object in the ULC.

Great image, Ryan - outstanding color and detail. For me, it would benefit from a tiny rotation of about 0.5 degrees clockwise, so that the legs were generally vertical.

I like the dreamy looking backround, very cool. I agree about a tiny bit of rotation. I see we are using the same camera/lens combo now.