Snowy Lessons

[Arthur Morris]

This Snowy Egret image was created at Little Estero Lagoon in Fort Myers Beach, FL on the recently concluded SW FLA IPT with the hand held Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM lens and the Canon EOS-1D X Digital SLR camera. ISO 400. Evaluative metering at zero as framed: 1/2000 sec. at f/8 confirmed via histogram check.


61-point/AI Servo/Rear Focus AF active at the moment of exposure. Click here if you missed the Rear Focus Tutorial.

In today's blog post, "Canon 300 f/2.8L IS II + 1D X + One Snowy Egret Stretching to Land = So Much to Learn ,"you can see 61-point AFat work, the original capture, and the image clean-up.

Don't be shy; all comments welcome.

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

This is beautiful, super pose, the whites look great, the yellows of the face and feet just pop! I like the reflection of the water on the bird. Nicely done, awesome PP work as well Artie (From what I saw on your blog)
TFS
Cheers
Sanjeev

[Gary Esman]

Hi Artie, the image quality here is excellent. Sharp, exposure spot on, background, reflection and tiny ripples behind him are the items I like. Nice to see the before and after in your blog.


Gary.

[Jeannean Ryman]

Beautiful shot Artie and it's very helpful to read what you did in post. Thank you!

[Nick Palmieri]

Beautiful flight capture. The head, feet and reflection are just perfect.

[Bill Dix]

That's one super pose, great exposure and sharpness. I might have considered moving him further to the left, at the expense of the ripples; but I can see why you left the ripples in place.

[Karl Egressy]

Beutiful landing pose captured. Love those yellow feet. Detais and textures are excellent.

[PhilCook]

Great timing Arthur and those feet are tack sharp, nice exposure on the whites....it's the feet that really grabs ones attention, be a great shot in and arty {=pardon the pun } way just to crop the image to have the feet and reflection showing.

[Frank Schauf]

Nice composition and excellent exposure control and sharpness.

[Faraaz Abdool]

Hey Artie - the feet make this shot a winner for me. Something about them that I can't put my finger on right now! Excellent PP work and walk-thru on your blog as per usual.

[shane shacaluga]

I love the feet and the ripples. Did the bird touch down slightly or are those ripples made by the displaced wind.

Also there is lots of detail in the whites if you look closely and the contrast white/yellow on blue is always great.

As a novice, could you explain what you mean by: Evaluative metering at zero as framed: 1/2000 sec. at f/8 confirmed via histogram check.

I am starting to get to grips with taking reading off the sky plus one stop etc for birds in flight, so why did you decide to go for zero on this one?