Cattle Egret Mouthing Off

This was taken at Gatorland on April 2008.

Canon EOS-1D Mark III
700mm
f/7
1/1600
ISO-640
Time - early AM

Critiques please.

Thanks,
Mike

Beautiful bird, nice pose and action, is he sticking his tongue out at you or someone else? :D:D:D

Seriously, this is an excellent shot, very well done. I might give it another round of sharpening. :-)

Kirk

It's a really nice photo with a great pose and excellent sharpness. I would add some room on the left and clone out the white flowers coming out of the bird's body on the right. Thanks for posting!

Cool pose and head angle. I would go for a tighter crop since you don't have the legs anyway.

Welcome Michael, Nice bird and light. Good suggestion by Doug. Had I been standing next to you it would have been the 500 with the 2X... As is, it looks as if it could use a bit more sharpening.

Well here's one with a tighter crop and another round of sharpening.

Better. Now reduce the RED SAT and then go to Selective Color and add 30-60 points of CYAN to the REDS...

OK, hope this is correct now.