Reddish Egret fishing at sunset

[Myer Bornstein]

Taken while on Robert Amaruso's Wildscape Images East Central Florida PIW this past weekend. Location was Merritt Island NWR -Black Point Wildlife Drive. The reddish egret was fishing by Running, and flapping its wings. It did catch a large fish.

Nikon D3s, Nikon 500 mm f4 + 1.7 TC at 850 mm, 1/1000 sec @ f8, ISO 800, Fill Flash@ - 1.1/3 w Better Beamer

Cropped and adjusted in lightroom

[Clemens Vanderwerf]

Hi Myer,

Nice light and wing position. The postprocessing looks a little too contrasty and harsh to me. I would keep a bit more space on the right side of the frame (if you have any left), or crop down to a vertical.
Pretty cold in Florida now. Hope you had a great time. Look forward to see you again.

Regards,
Clemens

[Doug Brown]

Love the pose Myer! The light looks good, but I would probably back off on image contrast just a little. I think some additional sharpening would help, and I might crop off the left for a more vertical composition.

[Myer Bornstein]

Thanks Clemens and Doug

BTW Clemens Thanks again for driving and also hope to see you again

Here is the re-work

[Doug Brown]

Looks better Myer! I would add just a bit of canvas on the left, and I'd skip the blurring that you applied to the water.

[Peter Farrell]

Fantastic pose and wing position. Re-post is an improvement.
Peter

[Joerg Rockenberger]

Great situation, composition and lighting. But I agree with the others that something might be off in post processing... JR