Visited an Egret breeding area this past weekend and was practicing my white exposure techniques. It was not until mid morning until the egrets started with their frenetic activity and with a bright sun it was quite hard to get the exposure correct.
Nikon D7000
300f4 + 1.7x TC @ 500mm (should be 510 but exif says 500)
f 7.1
1/2500
ISO 500
Evaluative metering - 1 1/3 stops (Kept adding shutter speed until the blinkies disappeared)
Handheld with continous AF using rear button and 9 centre points
Levels adjustment with some Gaussian blur on background and cloned a darker area in the background right infront of the bird.
Brightened the underwing a tad
Removed a slight blue cast that the wings had. Not sure why that happened.
Cleaned the beak a bit
Darkened pupil slightly
USM 143% 0.3 after resizing
Comments and critiques more than welcome








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