Cattle Egret portrait

[Sid Garige]

Canon 7D 100-400mm
F5.6 1/320 ISO 500
580EX in manual mode 1/4

[arash_hazeghi]

Super Sid! love the exposure and details, one of the species I had hoped to photograph last week but had no luck.

[Marina Scarr]

Boy did you nail this one, Sid. You always do such a great job with flash, and I love the BG on this one. The details are awesome, as is the pose.

[Troy Lim]

Sid, stunning image, even better than seeing it after you took it.
Love it. :)

[Ofer Levy]

Gorgeous portrait! Fantastic work as usuall Sid!!! If it was mine maybe clone out the stuff on the tip of the beak as she (must be a lady) looks so pretty and gentle....:w3

[Sid Garige]

If it was mine maybe clone out the stuff on the tip of the beak as she (must be a lady) looks so pretty and gentle....:w3

Agree with you 100% on that. :S3:

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Fantastic exposure and details. Superb work with the flash and excellent bg. Love this portrait.

[Tom Redd]

Sid, as always, wonderful shot. Good HA, exposure is right on and fine detail. TFS

[Jonathan Ashton]

Beautiful image, extraordinarily good detail, the exposure is ideal.

[Don Hamilton Jr.]

wow!!! Sid you nailed it my friend, beak clone isnt a bad idea, however this image is stunning as is!!! Don

[Alan Murphy]

That's just beautiful and elegant.

[denise ippolito]

Outstanding Sid, I like the pose and the beautiful colored BG.:S3:

[stuart wanuck]

Beautiful image as usual expect nothing less

[Humberto Ramos]

For me its just perfect, I would´t clone anything and leave it like it its...

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Sid, your portrait work is always very good. So is your use of flash. Lots of things to learn here. The head tilt takes this one the extra mile IMO....and also helps with the steep-ish shooting angle. Sweet bokeh.

If mine, I'd have probably done a little less sharpening on the breast feathers.

[Don Lacy]

Wonderful image Sid, I love the BG and the beautiful S curve of the head and neck.

[Dave Leroy]

Great stuff.

Pose and bird are lovely and really contrast perfectly with the bright bg.

I really like the lines and curves in the photo. It seems to have a flow to it.

Lovely work.

Dave

[Stu Bowie]

Excellent detail Sid, and I like HA. I feel you have the sharpness spot on here, and the egret stands out so well from the colourful BG. I do detect a slight blue cast on the lower part of the body.

[Kiran Poonacha]

I love this Bhai, cool pose and compo..

your avathar is just too good :c3:

[Doug Brown]

Just a beautiful portrait Sid! Congrats!

[Dan Avelon]

what an amazing portrait!

[Charles Glatzer]

[QUOTE Sid, your portrait work is always very good. So is your use of flash. Lots of things to learn here. The head tilt takes this one the extra mile IMO....and also helps with the steep-ish shooting angle. [/QUOTE]

Way to go, Great seeing you again in FL. And, thanks for lunch.

Best Amigo,

Chas