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Juxaposed Reddish Egret
White Morph Reddish Egret, sharp in the foreground.
Reddish Egret OOF in background.
Nikon D700
Nikon 600mm F4 AF-S I
ISO 400
1/2500 @ F6.3
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very nice Jim! OOF birds in the BG usually don't work for me but this one does. it provides depth and somehow balances the composition w/o being distracting, I think it has to do with the relative HA of the two egrets and the fact that the other one is a reddish. great exposure.
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Beautiful portrait, great pose and colors.
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Excellent picture. Having the OOF bird in the background was a good idea.
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I'm with Arash.....I don't usually like OOF birds but in this case.....I do believe you pulled it off! Very nicely executed!
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Usually oof birds look like blobs, but this is nice! Good choice of shooting angle which gave you the reflections. I think you could use a bit lighter hand on your sharpening on the white as his eye looks a bit hard and I see sharpening halos on this legs. Also some NR would help the bg. An image worthy of tweaking!
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Beautiful and i am not a fan of OOF birds, but the color makes the image.
Foreground Egret is very sharp.
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Others beat me to it: you pulled this one off nicely. Nice exposure and sharpness on the white one -- halo on the legs notwithstanding. And I love the blue lore.
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Lovely work. The image is very appealing in every way and I enjoy its simplicity.
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James, this is awesome. You really executed this well. It has a surreal feel to it that I liked a lot. Light from your left would have been better but you can't have it everything in the field :-) Your positioning of yourself was perfect to get the juxtaposition working.
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A very nice example how to make an out of focus bird in the background work.
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Killer foreground bird and a loverly choice of perspective. Maybe a foot more to your right would have worked a bit better.
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Originally Posted by
Arthur Morris
Killer foreground bird and a loverly choice of perspective. Maybe a foot more to your right would have worked a bit better.
Agreed, unfortunately I was already against the mangroves.
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Wonderful shot.
Great pose on the focused bird and the oof bird works very well here.
Exposed very well and nice shooting angle.
I agree with Grace on running NR on the background.
Well done.
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