Great Blue Heron

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image at Circle B Bar Reserve in Polk County, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED image captured at 400mm
1/2500 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV +1 ISO 5600 AWB
Post processed in Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop CC 2018
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Hi Joe,

Beautiful flight capture. Like the low POV and the fully extended wings as he glides. Neat to see how tightly compacted the legs are for less air resistance.

Geoffrey




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[John Mack]

Good heron flight pose. Looks a little soft to me.

[Raybel Robles]

Nice in flight capture and BG. But I do agree with John, the bird it's soft.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Jo I like the composition and the colours but have to agree the image looks a little soft/lacking definition in the plumage.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Thanks everyone for viewing and commenting. I guess I should have written more on the conditions when I captured this image. The morning had been very foggy, sunrise brought an overcast sky, so it was a dark day (note the 5600 ISO). I think remnants of fog hung in the air because the original was quite hazy. The softness in the image most likely is due to noise reduction and countering the haze in post processing. Thanks again everyone.