Cattle Egret in flight

[Morkel Erasmus]

Dug this out of my shots from April this year at the sports grounds of the University of Pretoria.

I liked the pose and exposure here. Brought back some detail in the whites with multiplied layers.

This is about a 50% crop.

Your critique much appreciated...

Techs:
Canon 1000D with 100-400mm L IS USM @ 400mm
f7.1 @ 1/1600 SS @ ISO-400
Exp +0.3

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Nice eye contact and simple/effective compo.
The multiplied layers really saved the whites here. I would desat. the sky a little.

[Dave Blinder]

Nice detail and light Morkel, the whites look fine on my monitor. Agree that BG can be desaturated.

[arash_hazeghi]

Nice exposure on those whites beak and eye are sharp, wing position while good is somewhat marginal in being close to a flat profile, would desat the sky. TFS

[Morkel Erasmus]

thanks Arash, Dave & Juan...

here is one with the sky desaturated some...although in Africa our skies actually are that blue :)