Great Egrets

[John Mack]

This image was created at Montezuma national wildlife refuge in Tyre, New York. Image adjustments in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Hand held, Big crop.

Canon 5D MarkIV
Sigma 150-600 Contemporary
600mm
ISO 1600
f8.0
1/1600sec

[Stu Bowie]

Hi John, I like the interaction between these two, together with the flying droplets. I feel you could tease out a bit more from the whites of the lower Egret. I would also crop away the 'brown' part of the upper BG.

[William Dickson]

Looking good John. Have to agree with Stu on the whites and the crop. Love the BG of reeds. Nice one.

Will

[Daniel Cadieux]

I too agree with the suggestions. Since it is already a big crop you could try selecting the brown strip above and morphing the colour to green (via "Selective Color"), this way you would not sacrifice even more pixels. I must say that the image works much better than what I anticipated from the thumb. I like the flaying water drops and falling raindrops.