Black -crwned -heron

[CMARINOVSTER]

Canon Eos Mk3
Canon 500 Is
F5
Iso 800

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Interesting pose and nice light. I would give it more room at the bottom and darken the bright spot in the lower left. You could apply some NR on the BG. It looks as if the nictitating membrane is covering the eye.

[Paul Pagano]

This is a really neat pose. I like it. On my monitor, it seems somewhat soft as if too much noise redux. If you are using Neat Image or Noise Ninja you might consider using them in advanced mode. I find it helps me not to over sharpen feathers.

[Robert O'Toole]

Interesting pose and the action is cool but...As the previous posters mentioned the BG is noisey and the membrane isnt very attractive.

I would warm up the image a bit also.

Robert

[Raymond Barlow]

this looks cool to me, awesome pose, wonderful bg., excellent shot.

[Brutus Ostling]

Very good. I like it mainly because I havn't seen a similar one before. If you take ,any flight shots for Example, many photos look alike, just a few sticks out.

(My screen on this computer is too bad to see if it's noisy eycetera so I am happy.)