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    Default Intermediate Egret

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    This egret (which has a different gape to Great Egrets) was having a good shake and preen. Fine feather filaments are visible in the air around the bird from vigourous shaking a moment before. Photographed at a park (Sherwood Arboretum) in suburban Brisbane, Queensland. I have cloned out an upturned lily leaf in the lower right. Cropped from landscape format this represents just over a quarter of the original frame pixels.

    Capture details: Canon 80D with EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM at 400mm handheld. Manual exposure 1/400 sec, f7.1, ISO 800. Processed in Canon DPP 4 (digital lens optimiser @ 50, sharpness = 3, crop, lighting adjustments, default NR) then exported 16 bit TIFF to Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin. Very light NR applied to bird and stronger NR to background. Main subject only sharpened in PSE (Sharpness tool, remove Gaussian blur) after final size reduction.

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    Love the exposure and plumage detail right down to the fallen feather.

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    I really like the fluffed up feathers and the dark water. Wish there was better eye contact and the bird wasn't looking down. Also think the image needs some clockwise rotation.

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    Echo Isaacs thoughts re: head position and eye contact but love the fluffed feathers and all the various small ones floating / falling around the bird. Nice exposure against a dark BG as well. TFS

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