Mangrove Hopping

[Robert Kimbrell]

D-800 500mm
F 5 Iso 640 1/2000
crop for comp. Adjusted w/b as I thought the bird was too warm. about an hour before sunset. taken from a boat.

I had to reduce my p/s quality to 84 to keep it undr 250 kb, Does that sound right?

[Wendy Kates]

Robert, I really love the action in this image. The wingspread is beautiful. I'm wondering if the head of the heron is a tad overexposed?

[Diane Miller]

Beautiful pose and wing detail! I'd do a masked Curves and bring up the darks in the head.

[Robert Kimbrell]

Adjusted curves with mask

[Jeannean Ryman]

Really love the dynamic pose and good job on the repost. Very nice!