Wonderful image-great bird, fish, and pose. Nice exposure and sharp. The JPEG is relatively tiny; 1024 pixels wide , 250 kbs is OK. Post it larger please!
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Hi Robert, I like how the egret is showing off his catch to you, and the whites and exposure are spot on. Love the reflection of the water cast on his body. Another vote for posting larger.
Lovely bird and super action captured. The quality of the image is quite poor at this size, and it would be most helpful if you could post your images larger. Looking forward to another image from this gorgeous bird!
Other than the previous comments, with which I agree, it looks like the BG is noisy, and could easily use another round of NR, especially if posted larger or printed large. Over and above that, it's a great capture of a dynamic behavior.
The repost is much better. At the larger size, detail in the bird's feathers shows up better.
However, it looks like you have not yet taken advantage of the fact that you can post here up to 1024 pixels horizontal (800 vertical). The larger your post, up to the limits, the more likely responders to your post will be able to critically examine it. You shot this originally with a Nikon D300: Was this a raw (nef) capture, or an in-camera JPG? Either way, the original should have been much larger than the largest post allowed here. Was this image heavily cropped?
Second, it looks like you applied NR to the entire image, which is OK in some instances, but if you apply NR to the background only, you will get a better result. The reason: When applying overall NR, you risk introducing softness to the bird and losing some fine detail in the feathers, which generally you don't want to do. I do sometimes apply a little NR to the subject, but when I do, I go very lightly. NR to the BG, on the other hand, usually doesn't matter because there is either little detail there, or you don't care as much about reducing fine detail in the BG, since it is often more or less out of focus.
Last edited by Dennis Zaebst; 03-20-2013 at 10:39 AM.
Reddish Egret, White Morph, Shows Prey
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