I captured this image of a Reddish Egret along Black Point Wildlife Drive in Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Merritt Island, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.
Nikon D7000
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED image captured at 210mm
1/1250 F/7.1 Matrix Metering EV+1/3 ISO 1000 WB set with eyedropper in Lightroom, camera supported by a monopod
Post processed in Lightroom Classic CC, Photoshop CC 2019 and Neat Image for noise reduction
Cropped for composition and presentation
Last edited by Joseph Przybyla; 04-28-2019 at 07:06 AM.
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
Tough to get a better mirror reflection than that! Super cool. Only thing I would do is revisit the colour of the water - even if naturally like this, the almost electric hue competes with the egret IMO. You can try a paler shade to see if that works, or simple desaturate it some to taste.
Tough to get a better mirror reflection than that! Super cool. Only thing I would do is revisit the colour of the water - even if naturally like this, the almost electric hue competes with the egret IMO. You can try a paler shade to see if that works, or simple desaturate it some to taste.
Hi Dan, I checked the image I had added saturation to the blue. Not sure why, guess at the time I thought it needed saturation added. Here is the image without saturation.
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
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