THE HERON WHO WANTED BE A DUCK

[Hugo Estévez]

With this picture, I want to show you a strange behaviour I saw once. This young night heron swam as a duck to cross the pond. Really funny for an heron, isn´t it?

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[subhrashis]

That's interesting, never seen anything like this!
I like the picture with it's lovely warm tones, good details and comp, good eye contact. The reflection is nice too!

You could remove the somewhat distracting whitish reflection , or take a bit off the top if you prefer.

[Steve Zamek]

That certainly is interesting behavior. The smooth background colors here are quite nice. I think the image, overall, could be a bit brighter. There are a few faint spots above the bird which you might want to remove.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Very interesting indeed. Light is great and I am fine with the exposure. The shooting angle is a little in-between I feel...a little low for reflection and little high for eye-level shot. If the reflection is not great, and if possible, for such shots I usually go down to the water level. But not sure if you have got the same BG...which is terrific here. Well done.

[Chris van Rooyen]

Fantastic light, and I love the hint of side-lighting. Agree with removing the spots

[John Guastella]

Lovely soft light. I agree with Steve about the spots and about making it a bit brighter, but works as is.

Just a few days ago I observed a Black-crowned Night Heron engaged in the same swimming behavior - I was wondering what kind of duck it was until I took out my binoculars and saw it was a heron. Very strange!

John

[allanrube]

Can you possibly add a bit of canvas to the bottom? I like the colors and do not think it needs to be lightened if this was the condition when you saw the "duck." :p

[Hugo Estévez]

Thanks for comments. I didn´t see the shots, "four eyes see better than two" :). I´m afraid it´s not possible to add more canvas to the bottom.

"But not sure if you have got the same BG...which is terrific here" I´m sorry but I don´t know the meaning of BG. Could you explain to me? Thanks

[John Guastella]

Hugo, BG is an abbreviation for "Background".

You could add canvas to the bottom, but it probably would take some work to clone in the water so that it looked natural.

John