Yellow crowned Night Heron

[Grace Scalzo]

Here is an unconventional crop. I welcome your comments. There is another rock in the left part of the frame that I did not care for, so I gave this a try.

1/500, f 5.6, iso1600
Canon 1Dx, 600 f4 + 1.4tc + lowered rrs tripod

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Grace,

The light in this image is awesome, and you took advantage of it. I would usually suggest toning down the bright portions in the bg, but I don't think it detracts in this case.

I can see why you included the entire rock, and I only wish he was looking toward the right to balance the image just a bit better.

Miguel

[LinzRiverBalmer]

very nice, before reading I thought it was a log not a rock.
that being said I would try cropping just a bit off the bottom of the rock so that it looks more like a rock and those few bright spots on the front of the rock will get lessened.

the bird is a beauty and I like everything else about the image.

[christopher galeski]

Beautiful light,the birds nice and sharp with good detail,have you tried a vertical.

[gail bisson]

I like this but think it would work better as a vertical.
Love the visible feet on that green vegetation and of course the light and IQ are top notch.
Do you have one with him looking to his left?
Gail

[hennieloots]

Hi Grace - I am fine with the crop. The light and IQ is just amazing. I think the rock with the green vegetation adds to the image, as well as the nice background. I agree on having the bird looking into space into the image; either compose bird to the LHS and remove the rock you mentioned, or alternate HA. All the rest just great.
TFS
Hennie

[Karl Egressy]

Fantastic light, great looking perch and very nice overall, Grace. I'm not sure, will have to look at it a few more times to see if I like the comp.

[Girish Prahalad]

great light & details. really like the perch but not sure about the comp though.

[Satish Ranadive]

Grace,
Your unconventional crop definitely looks superb, since you have got wonderful color backdrop, interesting perch with green vegetation and wonderful low shooting angle.
Love the beautiful lights, colors , especially blues in the BG, catch light in beautiful eye and great IQ.

Regards,
Satish.

[Randy Stout]

Grace:

Unconventional crop as mentioned, does grow on one a bit, would like to see a version with more on left if the rock there can be removed.

I like the skirt of water below, and not having the rock cut by the frame edge.

Sharpness, colors, very nice,

Cheers

Randy

[Richard Flack]

I really like this and think it works. Thanks for sharing!

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Great light, super HA, lovely BG and sharp as tack! TFS.

[Frank Schauf]

Excellent light, details and bg.