Great Egret - The Catch

[Colin Driscoll]

Showing off a nice small Yellowfin Bream (Acanthopagrus australis) often called a Silver Bream. A very tasty table fish, and Egret breakfast!
1DXII 400mm F/2.8L II & 1.4XIII 560mm 1/800 f9 iso1600 +1ev HH
Cropped, levels, sharpen in PS

[dankearl]

Nice catch... looks like a fairly large crop?
nice pose.

[Colin Driscoll]

Not so large Dan, about 50% from horizontal.

[Mike Poole]

Great action and nice light but I think the crop might be just a little too severe to retain the IQ

Mike

[Ivan Sjogren]

Unfortunately the image quality is not there Colin. Saying that the image looks well exposed and the fish is very cool. I think the vertical comp works well but again there is not much detail in the bird.

[Daniel Cadieux]

I agree with the boys above. Cool pose and the fish is placed just right, but the IQ has suffered here.

[gail bisson]

This girl agrees with all of the above!!
Gail

[Colin Driscoll]

Thanks for the comments, I have gone back and scrutinized the RAW image and the problem was that I didn't hit critical focus, just a tad soft.