Juvenile Tiger Heron Portrait

[Loi Nguyen]

Near full frame image of a lovely Juvenile Tiger Heron in the Pantanal, Brazil.

5D3
500f4 II + 1.4X III
1/800
f11
ISO-800
HH from boat.

Thank you for your comments

Loi

[Bill Dix]

Hi Loi. What a great look at this beautiful Tiger Heron. How lucky you were to get so close to him. Great lighting, detail, pose and BG. This year, for those people to whom I gave books for Christmas, I made a series of bookmarks of some extreme vertical pano shots, and included them in the books. Cropped tightly, this would be a good bookmark candidate.

[Karl Egressy]

It's great that you caught one with the extended neck. Nice portrait shot, Loi.

[arash_hazeghi]

nice head shot Loi, it's a bit too contrasty as a result of strong light, I would tone down the contrast a bit and also clone out the small branch sticking out of the bottom border.

TFS, handsome colorful specie we don't see that often here

happy holidays

[Daniel Cadieux]

Ditto Arash, and I'd also blend in the brighter spots in URC. I think photographing with a wide open aperture would have helped with the BG. Awesome look at the neck plumage here with a lot of excellent details, and the strong vertical composition is good too.