Reddish Egret

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image early morning last February at Ft. Desoto in Pinellas County, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 500mm F/5.6 VR AF-S ED PF, camera and lens supported by a Oben carbon fiber monopod with a Wimberly MonoGimbal head
1/2000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV +1 ISO 2200 Auto 1 WB, image captured at 500mm (750mm 35mm Equivalent)
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2021 and Topaz Denoise AI
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Wayne Niz]

Hi Joseph

What a beautiful and elegant that bird is, love the pose and the water splash. The top of the beak is over exposed IMHO and as this is such a critical focal point it is quite distracting. But it is a great shot of an awesome bird well done

TFS

[Joseph Przybyla]

Hi Joseph

What a beautiful and elegant that bird is, love the pose and the water splash. The top of the beak is over exposed IMHO and as this is such a critical focal point it is quite distracting. But it is a great shot of an awesome bird well done

TFS

Hi Wayne, thank you for viewing and commenting. You're right the upper bill was hot, I missed that in post processing. I revisited the image and burned the upper bill slightly and reduced the highlights. Here is a repost. Thanks again....

[Jay Ing]

Love the color on the neck and those lovely blue legs. TFS.

[gail bisson]

I love these birds!He is in wonderful breeding plumage.
Good solid image of the reddish egret. Nice splash and leg position.
A lower POV might have given you a more interesting BG,
Gail

[John Mack]

Nice to see big red. I do like the water trailing off the foot.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Thanks everyone for viewing and commenting, much appreciated.