Feeding time

Feeding time never looks easy for the parent great white egret. This was shot in the Everglades, from the canoe, spring this year.

Sony a700, 70-400mm
f5.6, 1/1600, ISO400
Did some burning on the hot whites, also cropped.
Thanks for looking
Connie

Connie:

It took me a bit to figure out which bird belonged to which neck here! It is amazing they don't have lots of eye injuries with all the beaks whipping around!

I really like the juvi on the left, looks rather crazed. I might consider toning down the large bright leaf in the foreground.
Yes, some very warm whites in some areas. Nice detail in the necks of the two rightmost birds.
The sky looks a sliver over saturated, but you were there.

Cheers

Randy

Love the action and look on the juvi, too bad about the branches.

Hi Connie, Interesting action. The foreground leaves are distracting and the sky is too electric. You can work with the blues by desaturating them.

The WHITEs on the top of the adult's head are totally without detail even though they do not show as over-exposed on the histogram. There are however lots of blown whites in the image as the screen capture shows.

Best to start over with the RAW on this one after consulting the various threads in the ER on saving the WHITEs...

How are you converting your RAW files?

Thanks for the comments and good instructions. Artie, thanks for taking the time to examine the photo. I usually start in LR where I do some recovery and/or tweaking the exposure if needed. Then send it to PS still in RAW format and continue editing if needed before converting to TIF or jpeg. I'll put this photo aside and use it for practice processing while checking on the ER threads. Thanks again.
Connie

Good plan on studying and then starting over :)