Snatch

[Troy Lim]

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Saturday morning started out slow at the Ft. Desoto park. The lagoon side was dead so we decided to head to the North part of the beach.
Saw this Great Egret fishing and then the Snowy Egret, Little Blue and Tri-colored Heron all showed up and were fishing in front of us. It was a cloudy day but caught this egret when the sun was out for a brief moment.


Camera Nikon D3S
Exposure 0.001 sec (1/2000)
Aperture f/6.3
Focal Length 850 mm
ISO Speed 640
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash No Flash


No Lynas!

[James Shadle]

Troy,
North Beach is an often overlooked treasure.
The image is well exposed and sharp.
Compositionally, it's well balanced and the low perspective makes the image much more personal.
I prefer the room you have at the top, however the dark band at the top makes the image look out of square. Consider cropping it out and then take a look.
I find the color of the background to be very complementary of the foreground.


What the heck - great shot (I did list the reasons it's a great shot IMO).

[gail bisson]

I like the light and the low POV.
gail

[Troy Lim]

Thank you.

[Mark Itol]

Lovely image, Troy. Nice shooting angle and light. I kinda feel a vignetting effect applied.

[jack williamson]

Great light, low angle. Love the BG and the setting.

Jack

[Clemens Vanderwerf]

Good perspective and low angle. The darker bottom and top frame the image nicely.

[arash_hazeghi]

looks very nice Troy, image is too small however post 1024 pixels. ;)

[Daniel Cadieux]

Great point-of-view, and I like the various bits of vegetation poking out of the water. Great light that poked up briefly for you! I actually like the dark band above but feel it would be better if the faint pale area above it in URC was filled-in (that is what may contribute to the out of square feel)

[Troy Lim]

Lovely image, Troy. Nice shooting angle and light. I kinda feel a vignetting effect applied.

Thank you all. Mark, just applied the S curve. No vignetting applied.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Troy, lot of good comments above. agree that the vegetation and dark band at the top are nice touches. perfect shooting angle.