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Kaustubh Deshpande
07-06-2009, 08:19 PM
Came across this great egret who was catching one terrapin after another...expertly I must add. The terrapin is not sharp because I did not get a high shutter speed and he was in the process of flipping it.

40d. 300 f/4L non-Is. 1.4x. hand-held. iso 500. 1/200. f/5.6. exp. comp +1. flash comp. -1 (I think I should have gone down further on that). Shot in shade.

I would have liked more room on the right but there is a very distracting OOF tree in the orig there.

All critiques welcome and appreciated.
Doug Herr
07-06-2009, 08:33 PM
I think your flash comp is fine, I would like to see the photo a little lighter overall.
Daniel Cadieux
07-06-2009, 08:35 PM
Nice feeding behaviour. I din't mind the prey item being a bit blurred from movement...gives it a sense of being still alive and struggling to escape.


flash comp. -1 (I think I should have gone down further on that)

Could be just me, but I think you could have actually gone HIGHER on that. I still like the result though. If you want more room at right you could always clone/patch out the tree instead of cropping it out - should be easy with this BG. You you have been able to step further to your right during capture to eliminate it in-camera?
Kaustubh Deshpande
07-06-2009, 08:37 PM
Doug, thx. I will go back to my RAW file and increase the exposure a bit. Admittedly, I am a little too paranoid about overexposing whites. still learning.
Kaustubh Deshpande
07-06-2009, 09:03 PM
a little better?

Daniel, I did not move to the right for background's sake. If I had done that, then I would have had a diagonal lake bank cutting right across the egret.
Brian Barcelos
07-06-2009, 09:19 PM
I like the re post better. Very nice capture. Poor soft-shell, I just got my son his first pet turtle this week. I'm not going to show him this!;)
Brian
Ed Cordes
07-06-2009, 09:30 PM
I too like the re post better. You achieved good detail. If you want more on the right you could add a bit of canvas to the image as presented. With the clean BG this should be easy to do.
Stu Bowie
07-07-2009, 02:53 AM
Great repost with the whites. I would do some selective sharpening on the head and bill.