Grey Heron

[Dumay de Boulle]

1D MKIII
500 f4 L IS
AV f5.6
TV 1/3200
ISO 1000
Exp +1.33
Aperture and CS5

One of a years worth of images I lost due to lack of concentration and not making sure they were backed up properly....Crits appreciated:S3:

[Randy Stout]

Dumay:

Lovely light, good BG, framing, pose with head free of wing merge.

The wings look a bit sharper than the head/eye area.

There are a few scattered round spots, which are probably natural in the BG, but I might clone stamp over them to smooth them out, esp. the ones right in front of the bird.

Cheers

PS: Thanks for the reminder about backing up. I am pretty good, but it never hurts to revisit that critical area.

[dankearl]

Sorry to hear that, Dumay.
Very nice angle and details on this one.

[Frank Schauf]

Exellent image quality, great details and sharpness.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Mate, great DOF from between both wing tips, and I do like the flying posture. Overall, well exposed and nice and sharp. Killer BG too. Well captured.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Dumay, sad to hear about your loss of images. we all need to do back ups more frequently...something that I am also not very good at.

this is a great shot...angle is perfect. getting that kind of BG separation is so tough for large birds...the subject distance, u choise of aperture, f-length, BG distance.....everything alligned perfectly here. love when that happens.

[Tom Rambaut]

Nice light and underwing detail. Sorry about the files, and I was unhappy at losing one RAW file recently. I bought a second hard drive yesterday just for photographs - so three things have to fail for me to lose everything.

[Arthur Morris]

Spectacular light, pose, sharpness, and underwing detail. Only distractions are the dark areas of the BKGR. Protect and defend cloning with a 40% hard brush can fix that problem.

[arash_hazeghi]

sweet light and excellent banking pose, sharp and a nice BG. everything is great

[Robert Holguin]

Excellent image. Wonderful light, great flight pose, great detail, and very well composed.
Well done.