Now How Do I Get It Off....

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image of a juvenile Great Blue Heron with an impaled Florida Gar fish along Wading Bird Way trail at Circle B Bar Reserve in Polk County, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D7000
Nikon 70-300mm F/4.5-5.6 VR AF-S ED HH
1/1600 F/8 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 560 Auto WB, image captured at 300mm
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2020 and Neat Image for noise reduction
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Brian Sump]

Really like this Joe. The bird appeared to have some yellow tones in the gray but the white near the beak looks white so probably good.

Is that a Gar?

[Joseph Przybyla]

Really like this Joe. The bird appeared to have some yellow tones in the gray but the white near the beak looks white so probably good.

Is that a Gar?

Hi Brian, thank you for viewing and commenting. Yes, the fish is a Florida Gar. I went back to the image, I think you were maybe right regarding yellow/green in the grey plumage. The bird was standing on a grassy area so the reflected light would be green. I used the eyedropper in Lightroom white balance and set the gray to be the neutral. Here is a repost with that change.

[Brian Sump]

Joe, ok so comparing them side-by-side I might split the difference if possible - the repost looks a little blue now. I didn't mean to screw anything up for ya.

Maybe we can let others chime in as well and see what they think.

Thanks for sharing on the gar.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Joe, excellent catch for the theme, and I'm wondering how he did manage to get that from his beak. I feel the OP is fine with regards to a yellow cast. The yellows are areas of dirt from day to day living.

[John Mack]

Nice view of this bird with the prey. I like the framing. Light looks quite nice.

[Daniel Cadieux]

What a cool scene you happened upon! I love that huge gar. Nice details on the heron. To me it looks like the yellows on the heron;s feathers look like natural staining of sorts.