Great Blue Heron in Flight

[Jeff Sorbie]

Another find on the St. Lawrence river. After finding the nesting Osprey we found an island full of GBH's and Cormorant's. Here is one of a GBH banking overhead.

Post Processed in Lightroom

A700 + Sigma 120-400mm (In Boat & Hand Held)

400mm / 1/1500 / f5.6 / ISO 640

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the eye contact, pose and cloudy sky. There seems to be a lack of fine details. Did you run NR on the plumage? There is also a slight sharpening halo around the bird. You can prevent this by decreasing the selection by a pixel or so before sharpening.

[Randy Stout]

Jeff:

Good critique from Axel, hit the high points. The exposure here is better than on your osprey, with more underwing light. I do think just a touch of +EC would have opened up the underwing area even more, and perhaps reduced the noise brought up in post. Not much EC, or you would lose the whites.

Cheers

Randy

[Jeff Sorbie]

Thanks Axel. Since my Photoshop skills are still lacking (Selection) I did run NR on the whole photo. Any advice on Photoshop books would be appreciated.

[Jeff Sorbie]

Thanks Randy. I will give that a try.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Jeff, there is a lot of good information in the tutorial forum. Check out this thread: http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=6040