St. Catharines Ontario, Canada
D300 / 200-400 VR
1/250s f/8.0 at 360.0mm iso200
Tripod, natural light, slight crop.
A fun afternoon with this cool, and friendly bird, who gave me some good opportunities and forced me into the swamp to get a better angle (to be posted another time). It sure was fun to get out shooting again, and have some good luck!
take care., and have a good week!
PS. I just noticed I messed up.. I forgot to sharpen the first image, I guess I cannot change it, so I will post a second here... sorry.
Nice pose and the lily pad environment is especially nice. Good framing and nice light. I am lolking forward to seeing an image of this bird after you got into the swamp, but this slightly higher angle shows the lily pads to advantage.
09-08-2008, 09:19 AM
James Salywoda
Beautiful shot Ray I love the pose captured and the habitat were this bird hunts. Well Done!
09-08-2008, 10:38 AM
Judy Lynn Malloch
Hi Raymond,
Really like the classical green heron pose you captured in this image and the wonderful alert eye, The environment adds a great deal to this capture and it is well composed. Fine work Raymond !!!
09-08-2008, 11:15 AM
Ramon M. Casares
I liek this shot because it shows very well how the bird walk thru the swamp, still I think I will like better a lower angle ;) as BG here is a bit bussy. Congratulatiopns!
09-08-2008, 11:37 AM
Daniel Cadieux
Nice composition Ray. Although the head angle looks parallel enough I still wish for it to be slight more towards us. I also detect a colour cast (I understand the habitat may have deflected some colour onto the bird...but I still feel it should be corrected). Can't wait to see some of those "into the swamp" images!
09-08-2008, 01:10 PM
Raymond Barlow
thanks for your coments everyone., here is a re-edit., I just wasn't happy with the first one, so I hope this is an improvement.
