Cattle Egret Fly-by

[James Boland]

I caught this Cattle Egret on a fly-by of the boardwalk at Gatorland late Saturday afternoon.

Model: Canon EOS 50D
Lens (mm): Canon 70-200 at 183
ISO: 400
Aperture: 6.3
Shutter: 1/800
Program: Manual

Noise reduction via Noiseware Pro. I applied Darken/lighten Center and Tonal Contrast filters from Nik S/W Color Efex Pro. Some cropping. The photo is about 80% original size.

Comments appreciated.

[Arthur Morris]

I like the white bird against the very dark BKGR with a good EXP. And the head turned back toward you makes the image. The face could stand a bit of sharpening.

[Arthur Morris]

Sharpened the bird and then the head again a bit more. Lightened the mid-tones. :)

[Patricio Murphy]

I really like the shot, the repost looks better. The wings look gorgeous.

[arash_hazeghi]

sweet BG and great exposure, the repost is much better in terms of sharpness just a bit of motion blur left in the feet. well done, TFS

[Fabs Forns]

Very nice image, Jim, the repost improves it. If this were mine, I'd darken the green parts of the BG so they don't stand out so much from the black.

[Alfred Forns]

Excellent image Jim !! .. did very well with exposure going to manual Just perfect ! Re post looks great !!

[James Boland]

Thanks to all. I take your comments and apply to the source image. Thanks for showing the way.

Jim

[Morkel Erasmus]

wonderful contrast and pose - Artie's repost has added the adjustments I would make as well