Pair of Great Blue Herons

[David A Lane]

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Flying over lake near Silver Springs state park in Florida.

Canon 1DX Mkii
Canon100-400 w 1.4tc at 560mm
1/1000 sec, f8, iso 2000

[Randy Stout]

David:

Welcome to BPN!

Very nice dorsal wing display on the lead bird. I like the vegetation in the foreground.

The image overall looks a bit saturated, and the IQ seems a bit soft.

Is this much of a crop?

From a compositional standpoint, generally works well to have more room for the bird to fly into.

Look forward to more.

Cheers

Randy

[Arthur Morris]

The front bird is a handsome juvie. Not sure on the back bird. Yes to way over-saturated and or too much Detail Extractor ... And ditto Randy on the more room in front and not the greatest image quality.

with love, artie on the way to the Galapagos

[David A Lane]

170733

Knocked the saturation and redid post processing for some improvement. This handheld image was shot after sunset.

David A Lane

[Arthur Morris]

170733

Knocked the saturation and redid post processing for some improvement. This handheld image was shot after sunset.

David A Lane

Better, and bigger, but still overdone a bit.

with love, artie

ps: still love that great dorsal view of the front bird.

[Arthur Morris]

With the Saturation set to -7 the colors look more natural to me.

with love, artie