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Great Egret Casmerodius albus

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Posted by Barry Southon on August 25, 2012 at 12:25 PM
Great Egret Casmerodius albus
They don't show too often on the South Coast so a rare grab shot for me.

Canon 1D3 now fixed Canon 800mm 1/2000 sec ISO 800 f/5.6 RAW to PS5 fiddled with and saved to post re sized.

Struggled with the whites a bit. Distence to subject (SK) some way off.

Critique, Advice and Comments most welcome and appreciated, thanks for looking.

:wink:
Posted by David Sewell on August 25, 2012 at 12:38 PM
The whites are a little blown on the top and right hand side of the bird, but I think you have sufficient detail in the whites elsewhere to get away with it. A pleasing portrait of the species in natural habitat.

David
Posted by Nick Mckeown on August 25, 2012 at 5:49 PM
Nit aside this is a great habitat shot of a bird I have never seen Barry. Love the lily pad leaves!

Nick. :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :smile: :wavey:
Posted by keith mitchell on August 26, 2012 at 3:42 AM
Barry bird looks good picking it's way through the lily pads,very nice.

Keith. :smile:
Posted by Bob Johnson on August 26, 2012 at 6:05 AM
Nit covered. Great foot position. Never seen one in the UK :wink:

Bob :smile:
Posted by Andy Shepherd on August 26, 2012 at 10:45 AM

Nice one, Barry. I've only ever seen one in the UK, so here is hoping another comes my way this year.

Andy... :smile:
Posted by Phil Ellard on August 26, 2012 at 11:19 AM
very hard with the whites with such a strong side light but i agree with david you have got away with it. Super shot of a very rare bird as bob says cracking foot position :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by John Robinson on August 26, 2012 at 2:39 PM
Nice one and great composition.
JR
Posted by Barry Southon on August 26, 2012 at 5:48 PM
Thanks for the comments chaps, I get lucky now and again just almost worked with this one.

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Posted by Robert Lawrence on August 27, 2012 at 6:16 AM
Very nice indeed Barry. The composition is spot on, foreground is great. Perhaps the background is a little messy but then it does convey the birds natural environment so it works in that respect. Nit mentioned but it's not overly distracting for me. Nice one.
Posted by Matt Cole on August 27, 2012 at 7:15 AM
it looks like you've lost some detail in the feathers due to NR too Barry, but a nice pose and a great looking bird.

Matt :toast:
Posted by Sandra Hendrikse on August 28, 2012 at 2:25 AM
I agree with Matt about the feather detail, but still a nice and well composed image. :wavey: