Great Egret - Gatorland

[Robert Amoruso]

Another from Gatorland. Taken at 7:30 PM just around sunset. I am using flash as main light to illuminate the bird and setting the shutter speed to get the tonality of the sky to my liking. With the clouds that evening I got just the look I was striving for. ISO 1000 used to get a reasonably high shutter speed. This one had some wing tip reconstruction.

Canon 1D Mark III
100-400mm @ 130mm
1/500 sec, f/5.6
Mode: Manual
Metering: Evaluative
ISO: 1000
Flash: On/Manual

[Harold Davis]

I'm speechless!! WOW:eek::eek: i may have never seen better! that is one heck of an egret photo. that bg is awesome!! and the bird is fantastic! way to go, robert!

[Adams Serra]

Robert, this is a amazing picture.I am looking forward to learn from you and Robert O'toole how to make images like the one you are sharing with us.
See you next week.
Adams

[john crookes]

I love everything about this photograph. It does appear to be washed out on my monitor
I duplicated the layer and changed the blend mode to multiply. Then I ran a NIK white nutrelize filter over the image at low strength


Maybe go in and tone the bg on the repost

[Robert Amoruso]

I like that John. Thanks. I was going for the high-key look on the bird. Interesting because I was working a similar image today and did the same thing with the blending mode vs. a local contrast enhancement to bring up detail but had not gotten back to this image to try it. I have the Nik filters and will have to investigate that. Thanks again - nice work.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

Nice repost,I really like this image!

[Jody Melanson]

Nice one Robert!

[Philip Lombard]

John version is awesome.

[Fabs Forns]

Very nice, Robert. In my opinion, you could have held back on the flash a little bit, the whites are too white and there's no detail on them.

Great wing position and the sky is killer!

[Alfred Forns]

Great wing position and exposure Robert !!! Agree on backing down the flash The re post is a different concept but very appealing !!!!

[Brian Wong]

Hi Robert!

That is an awesome technique, and thank you for explaining it! I am seeing some funky stuff around the feet on my screen, and in the repost, the bird's right wing tip fix is a little more obvious (from the increased contrast?) But learning how to balance the lights is so cool!