Great Blue Heron

[Marek Wozniak]

Photographed in Burnaby Lake, Burnaby - British Columbia.



Canon EOS 7D w/Canon EF 600mm f/4L IS USM Lens + 1.4x extender at 840mm optical or 1344mm with 1.6 sensor crop.

[Alex Becker]

Hi Marek, Nice scenic shot here. In my opinion (!), I'm finding the bird to be soft / lacking details. What f stop, shutter speed, and ISO were used here? I like the reflection but find the bird a bit cramped on top. Thanks for sharing!

[Marek Wozniak]

Hi Alex, and thanks for the kind words and constructive criticism. For this particular image, I was at 840mm - f/7.1 @ 1/160th sec. I wonder if the softness, or perhaps loss of detail, was caused by aggressive application of noise reduction. I'll have to revisit this image.
Again, thank you for pointing out!

Regards,
Marek

[Raybel Robles]

Hi Marek,

IMO I have a few problems with the image, the bird it's soft as mentioned by Alex. Also the image have a bit too much distracting areas all over, is hard to keep focus on the bird alone. It also need a bit clockwise rotation. Thanks for sharing and better luck next time, keep at it!

[Marek Wozniak]

Thank you Raybel. All noted. I agree with rotation and clutter. Appreciate the criticism!

[arash_hazeghi]

Hi Marek, nice find. the main issue here is the many distractions in the image as pointed out, you need to find one in a sealer environment for better isolation

TFS