Great crested Grebe

[Jonathan Michael Ashton]

Canon 20D Canon 500mm L IS Manfrotto tripod & fluid head
ISO 200 +1/3 stop
1/640 sec @ f4.5

In my excitement I gave +1/3 stop because I thought the white plumage and the reflection from the water would cause underexposure. I committed a cardinal sin, yep I didn't check that old histogram, as a result I have blown some of the white plumage.

Thanks for looking, all comments are welcome

Jon

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great interaction, angle and details. It looks a bit dark on my monitor and I might crop a bit off the top.

[Doug Brown]

Doesn't look blown to me. Nice photo. As Axel said, maybe a little off the top.

[Alfred Forns]

Very nice Jonathan !!! Sure wish the light was at your back Seems it was hard right Do like the poses a lot Agree on cropping some from the top !!!

[Philip Lombard]

Fant5astic shot.

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Very stunning image and I love the interaction you captured here. Wish it were mine , smile > Thanks for sharing Jonathan.

[Arthur Morris]

Lovely birds. And sharp. Wish for a better head angle for the bird on our left. The pose of the bird on the right is so, so elegant. Only the neck of the bird on our left looks a bit hot. The 20D tends to overexpose, and the image is mostly dark, so + compensation was not a good plan before the fact... I urge folks to study exposure theory just for cases like this, once-in-a-lifetime moments when you must be right right off the bat... Go the the Bulletin Archives and do a search for "Exposure Simplified." That will take you to an excerpt from ABP II.

[Daniel Cadieux]

From what I see the whites, although hot, are not complete blown. I am sure there is detail to recover (the burn tool set at 6-8% opacity is an option). I would also crop a bit off the top.