Cattle Egret in full flight

[Stu Bowie]

My last post had a flight pose with fully extended wings upwards. Here is a flight pose with wings, fully extended downwards. At this location, if one times the flight path of any subject flying by, you can capture them against this distant tree BG. Otherwise, its a mottled sky/tree BG. A scruffy individual. At this location, I always shoot manual exposure. Taken early morning.

Canon 1D Mark IV
Canon 300mm F/2.8mm +2X TC = 600mm
1/3200
F/7.1
ISO 640

Manual exposure
Hand Held

[Brian Sump]

Stu, very nice wing down pose. Lighting is beautifully angled to avoid shadows, tons of feather detail and the white on green pops really well.

Love the composition. Great work!

[Jonathan Ashton]

Not a whole lot wrong with that one Stu!! Gorgeous exposure and wonderful plumage detail.

[dankearl]

Excellent,, exposure is perfect..

[John Mack]

Very nice flight frame. Background,pose and detail are right on.

[annmpacheco]

super shootin Stu perfecto EXP and the bird really shines against that beautiful BG
Details so good!

[Kurt Bowman]

Excellent techs, everything looks spot on. Nice work!

[Daniel Cadieux]

That's the wing position I was hoping for in my egret in autumn image from a couple of weeks ago! I kinda wish for a less "dirty" wing, but I suppose plumage variations and time of year make for differently marked individuals. Good BG, sharpness, comp.