Great Egret

[Glenn Pure]

Prompted by the limited number of entries to this month's theme, here's a modest contribution which I took a week or so back in late afternoon light at a local dam. Cropped from horizontal, about 80% of frame height. An common bird made a little nicer by the 'sweet light'. I have tidied up a few bright spots on the water but left most there.

As always, thank you for looking and for any comments you are kind enough to share.

Technical: Canon 80D with EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM (original version) at 321mm handheld. Manual exposure 1/1250 sec, f7.1, ISO 1600. Processed in Canon DPP 4 (digital lens optimiser @ 50, sharpness = 2.5, crop, lighting adjustments, reduced luminance NR) then exported 16 bit TIFF to Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin. Modest NR to bird and stronger NR to background. Bird only sharpened in PSE (Sharpness tool, remove Gaussian Blur, 0.5 pixels at 50%) after final size reduction.

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

I like the back-lighting, specially the colors in the beak.

I do wish there is more space toward the left of the frame and I see some noise in the bird as well.

Thanks for sharing

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

For me the bird is too close to the LRC and there is very little detail in the whites. As Krishna said, they seem quite noisy. You had nice light though.

[John Mack]

This fits the theme well. Like the rim light on the bird. I also could see more room around the bird.