Snowy juvi

[Kerry Perkins]

From the Salton Sea, one of a large number of juvenile snowies that were there in November.

This one was quite a challenge, as I had to add canvas to the right and the bottom. I had just barely gotten the whole bird in the bottom of the frame, so I had to select the bird, cut it out of the background, then use content aware scaling to make the water bigger. Then I went back and cloned water into the hole left by the bird, unselected the original background and made the final result.

50D, EF400mm f/5.6L
Manual mode, f/5.6@1/2000 ISO 200 WB 5100K
AI Servo autofocus, hh no flash

[Doug Brown]

Nicely done Kerry! Great light, wing position, eye contact, and sharpness. The whites look good on my monitor. Thanks for the walk-through on post processing. Perhaps a little more canvas on the right.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

So nice work Kerry!

Love the clean wing position, eye contact and the wonderful BG.

[Jeff Cashdollar]

Sweet image, love the 200/ISO.


Great white feather detail, fast on the shutter, right lens for this shot.

[RAM MALLYA]

Nice flight shot ,perfect background and sharpness.

[John Blumenkamp]

Hi Kerry... I really like the wing position you've captured here, and hearing your process for adding canvas, etc was great to read about. Thanks for sharing.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Very nice capture, Kerry.
Especially love the constrasting beautiful background.
Thanks, too, for sharing your post-processing technique.

[arash_hazeghi]

This is a sweet shot, the wing position makes this a special capture, sharpness is very good and whites exposed well. TFS

[Bill McCrystyn]

Hi Kerry, one of my favorite Egrets. I don't think you could have hit the light more perfect. Wonderful image. Congradulations!

[Harshad Barve]

Beautiful image Kerry with nice wing position and killer BG
TFS

[Peter Farrell]

Beautiful image. The white color of the Egret is perfect. (I tend to overexpose my Egret shots)
I am very impressed with your PP results.
Peter

[Bill Dix]

Kerry - Perfect wing position, well captured. Light is nice and exposure captured the whites nicely. BG is lovely; good work on the PP.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Kerry....getting both good wing position and good head angle is not easy. Awesome job. Exposure is perfect as well. And loved that BG. Nothing to suggest...a very well executed shot.

[denise ippolito]

Kerry, Beautiful pose,exposure and pp work! I love the underwing details and nice eye contact. Congrats!!