Here are some Great White Egrets fighting at Wakodahatchee. Ithink they are juveniles. Capture: 7D, 3002.8 + TC 2x, 2000, f7.1, ISO 400, Manual, a scattered cloud jumped over the sun, rendering the light soft, yet the image 1/2 stop underexposed. Developed in LR and PS.
Hi Chris- this is a very interesting tight portrait of the two birds. There's lots of great detail in the whites- very good advice to wait for clouds if the sun is out. I really like that aspect of the image. The eye of course really jumps out at you. Did you do anything special to this part of the image? As the righthand bird is a "second string player" in the image (it's rank would increase if an eye was visible), I think you could consider other crops, such as one where quite a bit is taken off the right up to the leg (leave the leg). That does put the eye smack in the mid-line of the image, which may not be preferred. I do see some noise in the righthand bird, probably due to the underexposure. I think the 7D is quite sensitive to that.
Thanks! I think I may have over sharpened it, upon a later reflection. I think I should have ever run some noise removal on it, or been more careful with the sharpening, or likely both. Thanks though! On the eye, I burned the pupil, and saturated (sponge tool) and dodged the iris, as I had recently learned in a Birds as Art post which referenced Daniel Cadieux and how he works his 7D images. Thanks!
Is this full frame or cropped...maybe a 1.4 would be better in this case than a 2x...lol. Love the different persecutive...I am sucker for different composition.
Great White Egret Fight
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