Little Blue Heron juvenile

[Bill Dix]

From Merritt Island NWR last month. Full frame except for a tiny rotation.

D500, 500f4, ISO 1250, 1/2500s @ f/7.1 manual.

[Joseph Przybyla]

I like your image, Bill. The reflection is a mirror image of the bird, lovely calm water. Thank you for sharing.

[Bill Dix]

I like your image, Bill. The reflection is a mirror image of the bird, lovely calm water. Thank you for sharing.

And thank you, Joe, for recommending that we spend sometime at Merritt. It was very productive.

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Very clean with perfectly detailed reflection, Bill. Beautiful light and intense hunting stance.

Geoffrey




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[Isaac Grant]

Love the pose and that excellent reflection. I do think the image is a bit on the dark side and also see some noise on the birds neck. Easy fixes for an otherwise very nice shot. I envy the shots you got of these waders. I saw so many of them in horrible light or while I was on a raised dike and they were 5 feet below in a canal. Didn't even pick the camera up for them.

[Bill Dix]

Thanks Joe, Geoffrey and Isaac. Here's a repost with a bit more brightness and a bit less noise. Don't know if I went to far; it may have lost some of the juvenile smudginess and feather definition in this brighter version.

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Personally I prefer the original mainly because that's the quality of light we had. Nice NR in the repost.

Geoffrey




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