View Full Version : Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Raybel Robles
01-29-2014, 06:17 PM
Waited nearly a year before seeing the first YCNH here. It was really tamed and I managed to get really close to him with patience.
Not much light that evening.
D7100 | 300mm | f/4 | 1/640s | ISO 640
Iain Barker
01-29-2014, 06:25 PM
I really like this image and see anything to fault.
Nice to see the prey as well as the bird. Everything looks sharp and well exposed and the background is nice.
I do wonder if cropping nearer to the birds head would give an even stronger composition.
TFS
Iain
Raybel Robles
01-29-2014, 06:44 PM
I really like this image and see anything to fault.
Nice to see the prey as well as the bird. Everything looks sharp and well exposed and the background is nice.
I do wonder if cropping nearer to the birds head would give an even stronger composition.
TFS
Iain
Thank you so much Iain. I also tried to crop closer for stronger comp. on the bird's head. But the IQ do suffered a bit, specially the noise start showing a bit more around the dark areas.
Thanks again for your reply.
Ray
Grace Scalzo
01-29-2014, 08:49 PM
Ray, A fun image of one of my favorite subjects. The dark bird and bright background works well here. I like your choice of composition.
adrian dancy
01-29-2014, 10:20 PM
Top drawer. Superb to get the bird with a crab in its bill.
Marina Scarr
01-30-2014, 11:53 AM
Super behavior/action captured here. I have reposted with a few tweaks. Recropped, did a slight big of lifting of the shadows and sharpened a tad more.
Raybel Robles
01-30-2014, 01:20 PM
Thank you much Marina! Looks good. I will try and do the same to my original file.
And thank you everyone for the comments!
Bret Goddard
01-31-2014, 10:48 AM
Very nice, I can hardly tell there was little light. The crab bubbles and that beautiful eye, Grand job!
Robert vanMierop
02-02-2014, 10:49 PM
Night Herons have great eyes and you caught that well.
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