Grey heron
Grey Heron
Taken from wader scrape hide
D200
Sigma 50-500
250th @f9 640ISO
80% of full frame.
PP in Paint Shop Pro
Levels/Image guru.
Cheers
JohnR
Thanks both. Interesting comments. Heres a lesser quality shot with more of a straight on eye angle.. Interestingly I preferred the first for simply the reason the eye was looking down the bill as Herons and other water birds do.
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JohnR
John, in my opinion the second image is much better and much more engaging to the viewer. The eye is "alive" and even the background is more appealing (by the way, the first BG suffers from some odd compression artifacts).