Great Blue Heron

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image at Lake Morton in Lakeland, Florida. 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 260mm (390mm FFE)
1/500 F/8 Matrix Metering +1 1/3 EV ISO 500 AWB
Post processed in Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC, work with the adjustment brush on the face, Iris Enhancement and darkening the pupils to the eyes, corrected a green color cast to the white feathers under the bill
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Randy Stout]

Joe:

Certainly fits the theme! The tongue poking out to the side is a nice little addition.

The greens under the chin could use a bit more tweaking. The repost had a selective color layer run, greens, with cyan to -100, magenta +100, yellow - 100.

Just an option.

Cheers

Randy

[Joseph Przybyla]

Hey Randy, thank you so much. This forum is wonderful for learning, I have never used Selective Color in Photoshop before. Now I have to go read about it. Easy to do, here is the repost, I knocked the Magenta down to +50 because on my display it appeared a little Magenta cast was creeping in. Thanks again for taking the time.

[Randy Stout]

Joe:

Fair enough, repost looks good. Depending on monitor calibration, subtle differences are expected.

Cheers

Randy

[Adhika Lie]

Interesting perspective on this wonderful poser, Joe. It's actually very pleasing with the symmetry in the eyes.