Green Heron

[Joseph Przybyla]

I went to the marsh at Circle B Bar Reserve today. I found this Green Heron to tolerate my presence capturing several images. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D7000
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED shot at 400mm (600mm FFE)
1/1600 F/5.6 Matrix Metering 0 EV ISO 640
Post processed in Lightroom 5 and Photoshop Elements 10

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Great image of one beautiful Heron, Joseph. Wonderful green BG and perch. This is such a perfect presentation of this Green Heron. Great head angle and feet grabbing the perch. Water drops on perch add interest too.




Geoffrey

[Jim Neiger]

Beautiful pose, bg, and composition. The whites appear to be blown in places.

[Raybel Robles]

Great image with a very good composition. I just think there is a bit of a green cast in the image?

[Karl Egressy]

Great clean image with nice pose and background, Joe.

[gail bisson]

Excellent! I like the way the right foot is wrapped around the perch.
The whites look good to me but I would burn/reduce the exposure on the perch.
The green BG is quite vivid and I like it but I could also see a version with the greens toned down very slightly,
Gail

[Joseph Przybyla]

Thanks everyone for viewing, commenting and offering suggestions. I appreciate your time and effort in doing so.