Snowy Egret

[Daniel Belasco]

canon 1dMKIIN 100-400mm f5.6 @ 340mm f5.6 1/640 sec iso 800

http://newimages.fotopic.net/?iid=11ap6b&outx=600&noresize=1&nostamp=1

[Randy Stout]

Daniel:

Magnificent water colors in the foreground. To my eye the bird is underexposed and the head is turned away.

I would be tempted to selectively increase the birds exposure, and consider cropping down from the top a bit.

If you have canvas to the side, I would include enough to show the complete ring around the bird if possible.

Cheers

Randy

[Bill Dix]

Lovely FG colors. Agree with Randy about a crop from the top. Would have wished for a head turn toward you.

[David Thomasson]

I think the colors and ripples make up for the head turn.

In this edit, I set white and black points, and also cloned out some of the brighter reflection in the background that reaches down to the bird's head. I found that a little bit distracting. Beautiful image.

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/2756/egret.jpg