Little Egret

[Jonathan Michael Ashton]

I managed to get a few BIF shots it isn't all that easy with a 20D and 500mm & 1.4TC combo, once something goes out of focus in takes a while to get it back!:(

Canon 20D Canon 500mm f4 L IS &1.4TC, Mongoose 3.5 & Gitzo 3530

ISO 400
1/250 sec @ f5.6

All comments welcome

Jon

[Jonathan Michael Ashton]

Having just looked at the uploaded image it does not bear a great resemblance to the original, it has lost it's clarity and there is noise around the edges of the bird - particularly the feet. This is not apparent on the original.

Jon

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Nice find and BG. I wish the wings were either up or down and would crop a bit tighter. I agree regarding jpg compression, at 150kB it should look much better.

[Jonathan Michael Ashton]

Thanks, I couldn't understand what I had done wrong!

Jon

[Arthur Morris]

In addition to the small file size the two big problems here are the small size of the bird in the frame and the flat wing position as noted by Axel. I do like the BKGR there is just too much of it.