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    Default Great Blue Heron

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    I captured this image at Circle B Bar Reserve in Polk County, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

    Nikon D500
    Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED image captured at 400mm
    1/2500 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV +1 ISO 5600 AWB
    Post processed in Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop CC 2018
    Cropped for composition and presentation
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    Hi Joe,

    Beautiful flight capture. Like the low POV and the fully extended wings as he glides. Neat to see how tightly compacted the legs are for less air resistance.

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    Good heron flight pose. Looks a little soft to me.

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    Nice in flight capture and BG. But I do agree with John, the bird it's soft.

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    Jo I like the composition and the colours but have to agree the image looks a little soft/lacking definition in the plumage.

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    Thanks everyone for viewing and commenting. I guess I should have written more on the conditions when I captured this image. The morning had been very foggy, sunrise brought an overcast sky, so it was a dark day (note the 5600 ISO). I think remnants of fog hung in the air because the original was quite hazy. The softness in the image most likely is due to noise reduction and countering the haze in post processing. Thanks again everyone.
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