Great Blue Herons Nesting...

[Joseph Przybyla]

Still working through the images of Great Blue Herons nesting at Lake Morton that Artie and Anita gave me the location. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 500mm F/5.6 VR AF-S ED PF, camera and lens supported by a Oben monopod with a Wimberly MonoGimbal head
1/2500 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 900 Auto 1 WB, image captured at 500mm (750mm 35mm equivalent)
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2021 and Neat Image for noise reduction when needed
Cropped from a 2x3 to 4x5 for composition and presentation

[David Roach]

Another classic from you. The only minor nit is you need a cherry picker.. Beautiful view of both. TFS

ps
Love the chosen framing...

[William Dickson]

Lovely shot Joe...The whole frame tells the story...Lovely feather detail, I love the wing position on the bird in flight.

Will

[Brian Sump]

Joe, another fine frame from the series IMO, for many of the reasons stated prior.

Nice job framing this one as well, leaving the tips of the branches on left.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Joe, another fine frame from the series IMO, for many of the reasons stated prior.

Nice job framing this one as well, leaving the tips of the branches on left.

Hey Brian, thank you for viewing and commenting. Your comment regarding the framing and leaving the branches on the left brought a smile to my face. I messed around with the framing until I could include those branches. Artie had something either in his blog or a comment on a image saying pay attention to details, they mean a lot.

Now about the discussion in Dorian's thread regarding doing all the post processing in Lightroom. This image was done only using Lightroom, I did use Photoshop to convert the image to a TIFF and to apply Neat Image (a plug-in in Photoshop) noise reduction to the whole image. It is what I learned, read about, know inside and out. Lightroom was designed to take steps and processes in Photoshop for image processing and make them easier, with fewer steps and no need for layers which increase the size of a image. It does have a few quirks that most people don't know about but knowing the history of the development makes sense out of them. Some of the new features in the most recent updates are really nice to use. Anyways, take care and stay healthy....

[Brian Sump]

Hey Brian, thank you for viewing and commenting. Your comment regarding the framing and leaving the branches on the left brought a smile to my face. I messed around with the framing until I could include those branches. Artie had something either in his blog or a comment on a image saying pay attention to details, they mean a lot.

Now about the discussion in Dorian's thread regarding doing all the post processing in Lightroom. This image was done only using Lightroom, I did use Photoshop to convert the image to a TIFF and to apply Neat Image (a plug-in in Photoshop) noise reduction to the whole image. It is what I learned, read about, know inside and out. Lightroom was designed to take steps and processes in Photoshop for image processing and make them easier, with fewer steps and no need for layers which increase the size of a image. It does have a few quirks that most people don't know about but knowing the history of the development makes sense out of them. Some of the new features in the most recent updates are really nice to use. Anyways, take care and stay healthy....

Good to know Joe, on both fronts :-)

It appears you did nicely with Neat Image here and yeah, for sure PS does have some benefits.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Thanks everyone for viewing and commenting, much appreciated.

[Arthur Morris]

Still working through the images of Great Blue Herons nesting at Lake Morton that Artie and Anita gave me the location. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Please note that it was Joe who first brought me to this location several years ago. I loved it so much that we collaborated on a Middle fo Florida Site Guide. And I have been back many times since.

with love, artie