Cammo - meister

[Richard Unsworth]

:S3:

Fascinating

A bare throated Tiger Heron stands in full view but you have to look twice!

Taken when I had to get out of the boat on Costa Rica;s Tortuguero River as the water was to shallow to pass through with people on board!

1/640 iso 800 285mm 0n 100-400 7d
NR and crop, smartsharp

[gail bisson]

Hi Richard,
They certainly do blend in to the environment. Good HA.
I would reduce the contrast and reduce the magenta in color balance.
I would do some NR in the RUC as well.
I wish the tangle of vegetation in the LLC was not so prominent,
Gail

[Richard Unsworth]

Just for fun took out LLC which is less than ideal (Content aware)
NR to urc as suggested and lowered magenta reset b&w points,surprised recast as I had done thatbefore

[PhilCook]

I cant see any bird ?....lol......despite the large oof area it is a great bit of educational photography. That's quite a bit of clone work on the re post, may be worthwhile completing it

[arash_hazeghi]

it's a cool bird but it's quite lost in the habitat/nest-which shows the natural camo but hard for viewers to connect with the bird

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

I common bird but with very nice patterns to pass by! I like the idea of cloning the offending vegetation on LLC but clone work seems too obvious to me. I would warm the image a tad if it was mine.