Immature Little Blue Heron

[Joseph Przybyla]

Another from Ft. Desoto early last Wednesday morning. 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
1/500 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV +2/3 ISO 360 Auto 1 WB, camera supported by a monopod
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2019 and Neat Image for noise reduction
Cropped slightly for composition and presentation

[John Mack]

Nice view of this little blue heron. Like the light and the pose. All that blue water is nice as well.

[dankearl]

Nice closeup hunting pose.
I would lower the exposure a bit...

[Aditya Sridhar]

Nice shot Joe! The light's nice and the HA is great :S3: As Dan has mentioned, a lower exposure would be better. I'd also warm the image up a touch as it looks too cool on my screen. The critical focus point was on the neck and not the eye, but if you had stopped down a bit, it wouldn't have been a problem.

[Arthur Morris]

Yes to too bright. This is an adult. The juvies are pretty much white.

with love, artie