Tri-colored heron

[Karl Egressy]

This is an other image I liked while doing the printing of my pictures.
Taken at Viera Wetland this spring.
Thanks for looking.

Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Manual Exposure
1/500 sec
f 7.1
Spot Metering
ISO 400
Lens EF500mm f/4L IS USM +1.4x

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Karl, very nice indeed. loved the BG. subject placement and relative size of it in the frame are excellent as well. sharp, well exposed and nice soft light. Well done.

[Paul Randall]

Love it Karl, exposure, colours, comp etc etc :S3:
I think the omission of the stray twig will improve things though :bg3:
Let me know what you think:c3:

[christopher galeski]

nice one Karl,nice colors,nice comp,good BG,I agree with paul about removing the twig,and the image looks better.thanks.

[Karl Egressy]

Love it Karl, exposure, colours, comp etc etc :S3:
I think the omission of the stray twig will improve things though :bg3:
Let me know what you think:c3:

Thanks Paul. You are perfectly right.
Little things like this can improve the composition and it did. Too bad that I have printed it out already with the twig.
Next time!

[Troy Lim]

I like the repost better, however, if you were going to remove something from it, I would even clone out the top perch that is closest to the neck, my eye tend to focus on the perch more.
I believe it will make the focus on the bird and with the pleasing BG, it would be a really great print!

[Karl Egressy]

I like the repost better, however, if you were going to remove something from it, I would even clone out the top perch that is closest to the neck, my eye tend to focus on the perch more.
I believe it will make the focus on the bird and with the pleasing BG, it would be a really great print!

Thanks Troy. I'll fix it up.

[DanWalters]

Great detail in the heron and I like the interesting perch. The repost looks a little cleaner.

[Nico Steenberg]

Great exposure and sharp detail. Like the comp and soft colours. A super portrait !