Egret - Breeding Colours

[Stu Bowie]

This is one of a few egrets that I didnt manage to blow the whites. Taken at the University of Pretoria early yesterday morning.

1D Mark IV
100-400 @ 400mm
1/1250
F/5.6
ISO 800

Manual Exposure

Taken at 6.04am

[John Cooper]

Yes Stuart you have held the whites here nicely - I love that red eye and the egret is so well portrayed against the darker BG. Nice one!

[Satish Ranadive]

Stuart Sir:
Love the way bird pops up against dark backdrop.
Love the wing position,great details in whites and nice colors of beak and eye.

Regards,
Satish.

[dankearl]

Stuart, excellent control of the whites in this.
Not easy. How much did you underexpose to get this?
I am always struggling with the bright whites in a dark BG?
I see your settings, but how much minus did you expose?
If I expose to get the white right, I lose the rest of the photo.
I know it is not a simple answer, but you seem to get it right.
Thanks if you can answer this.

[arash_hazeghi]

Great pose and it stands out nicely against the dark BG.

[christopher galeski]

nice one Stuart,like the green in the BG,good flight pose and nice detail.thanks.

[Shawn Zierman]

Sweet exposure work against the dark green bg...
Subject really pops. Sharp details.
Wish for a slight head turn towards us...

[gail bisson]

Hi Stuart,
Great BG and love how the whites pop against that BG.
Excellent IQ and feather detail.
I like the vertical crop as well,
Gail

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Very nice Stuart! Details in the bird are great, and the bg compliments it well. I wouldn't have thought a vertical comp, but I like the way it looks. Thanks!

Miguel

[Randy Stout]

Stuart:

Nice job on the whites, always a challenge with the darker bg. Nice full up front wing, wish the rear was up a bit more.

Interesting choice on crop as mentioned. Perhaps the extra room below is to give him room to flap his wings into

Cheers

Randy

[Stu Bowie]

Thank you all for the kind words.

Dan: I will send you a PM.

Randy: Yep, space for the downstroke.

[Jonathan Ashton]

It's a peach of a shot Stu, can't fault it, I suppose you considered a landscape version and preferred the portrait, I think would probably have gone for landscape version but in any event a super shot.

[Karl Egressy]

Excellent flight pose captured against a deep green background that makes the pird pop. Great BIF picture, Stuart.

[David Salem]

Nice job on the exposure. Not easy. Like the dark BG and the comp. Nice BIF. Well done Stuart...

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the red eye, exposure control, BG and vertical composition. Well done Stuart.

[Gaurav Deshmukh]

Lovely image stuart. I would also like to know about the underexposure.