Snowy Egret on the seawall.

[Eric Freeman]

I almost didn't take this shot, as I had to shoot into the sun. Lightening the bird brought out a lot of noise, but it's good enough for my Flickr page.

Canon T1i
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM lens with EF 1.4x III extender at 265mm
1/400 second, f/4, ISO 200


Snowy Egret, 8x10 by ScubaDude1960, on Flickr

[Kerry Perkins]

Hi Eric, I like the high key look and I think you did a great job of lightening the bird. I would suggest lightening the eye, nares, and bill to bring them out a bit. I like the bluish/pink colors. Nice image!

[Richard Mc Donald]

That's a great set of shots on Flicker Eric for sure. How much time did you take in decided on this one because personaly I think #2401 is better.

Non the less, this is a good shot, as Kerry said some selective lightening around the head for a tad more detail would work better. I also like the way the Egret's feet are dead flat on the man made perch.

Richard

[Eric Freeman]

Thanx for the comments. I'm still working on post-processing (I'm a noob with photoshop, and just bought Martin Evening's "Photoshop for Photographers") and hope to do a better job of noise reduction and accentuate the background colors a bit. I like the pose in #24031 better, too, but there's some motion blur visible in the feet at higher resolutions, despite the 1/500 sec. shutter speed. When I saw it behind me, I took a few quick shots and then paused to add a stop of exposure compensation, but it took off before I could get any more shots.

PS. Here's 24031 for those who didn't check my Flickr page:

Snowy Egret by ScubaDude1960, on Flickr

[John Chardine]

Hi Eric- I assume you had your meter set to evaluative mode, in which case it saw a lot of light tones (BG, bird) and "decided" to make them look grey as all meters do. The solution is to add a stop or more of exposure.

[Eric Freeman]

I had EC set to +2/3. I thought that would be enough, but it wasn't.