Snowy Egret #2

[Brian Sump]

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This is the same Egret as was claiming his territory in the last image. You can tell by the left clipped wing flight feathers.

D850
Sigma 500mm
HH
ISO 2500
1/2500
f4

Edited in C1P then PS (cleaned up some bkg and water foam). Bkg noise in DNAI.

[David Roach]

Nice soft light, great wing down pose and HA. Also love the trailing golden slippers, water and BG. TFS

[Randy Stout]

Brian:

Nice eye, feet of course, full down stroke, angle in the frame and composition.

I would probably do a bit more cleaning of the water. I know there are a lot of quite indistinct spots, but a bit of additional scrubbing would be an option.

Cheers

Randy

[dankearl]

Nice pose, head angle and processing.
Soft light, whites look good.
Messy water is tough, bad luck , hard to clean up this much. I would leave as is.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Perfect downward wing stroke, and the feet railing behind are neat. The whites look good, and details are sharp enough as posted. I love the BG, except for the lower third because of all those spots.

[John Mack]

The down stroke pose is dead on. Detail looks good in that soft light. That's the type of light i get here ususally. The gradient in the background is another nice touch.

[Brian Sump]

Thank you all.

If anyone has suggestions for removing the spots other than spot healing brush one by one, please share

[Bill Dix]

Lovely downstroke, and great trailing "golden slippers". I like the BG, and don't mind the smaller speckles in the bottom, but I might try to remove some of the oof light spots. (Wonder what caused them?) I don't know how to do it rather than the spot healing brush, or clone tool, with which I sometimes have better luck.