Great Blue at Padilla Today

[phillane]

This shot cost me a bagle and two kippers, just kidding :) This gret blue posed for me as I snapped away durring a blistry day @ Padilla, image has been cropped.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the pose and head angle and would sharpent the bird more. The BG looks a bit noisy and I would add space top and right and would clone out the red spot at the bottom. Could you post the techs?

[joel quenneville]

The cold feeling really comes through here. I would recrop, adding some room at the top and top and perhaps removing some from the left. Your pose here is excellent and the log is a big plus.

[Don Lacy]

Nice pose and head angle as mention and also another vote for re-cropping the image if possible would add some space in front of the Heron and take some off the left.

[phillane]

Here is the Great Blue recropped along with some sharpening added .Shooting data is as follows

Date: 2/9/09
Time: 12:01:53 AM
Model: Canon EOS 40D
Frame #: 3676
Lens (mm): 400
ISO: 400
Aperture: 6.3
Shutter: 1/320
Exp. Comp.: 0.0
Flash Comp.:
Program: Aperture Priority
Focus Mode:
White Bal.:
ICC Profile: sRGB Profile
Contrast:
Sharpening:
Quality:

[joel quenneville]

Thank you for the EXIF data and for reposting. I like your repost a lot.