Little Blue Heron

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image of a salt encrusted Little Blue Heron at the roped off lagoon near the nesting area at Ft Desoto north beach in Pinellas County, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED, camera and lens supported by a monopod
1/500 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV +2/3 ISO 360 Auto 1 WB, image captured at 400mm
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2021f and Neat Image for noise reduction when needed
Cropped slightly for composition and presentatioin

[David Roach]

One of my fave waders in sweet light. What's not to like... TFS

ps
Nice POV...

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice light indeed, resulting in beautiful warm tones in the colours.

[Dorian Anderson]

Seriously nice light, and the bird looks really intense! Bird's angle let you get away with the slight side lighting from left. Feather detail looks very good. Lower would make it more dramatic, but that's my personal obsession!

[Joseph Przybyla]

Seriously nice light, and the bird looks really intense! Bird's angle let you get away with the slight side lighting from left. Feather detail looks very good. Lower would make it more dramatic, but that's my personal obsession!

Hi Dorian, thank you for viewing and commenting. Regarding a lower point of view... Although I am blessed with good health at 77 years old, it is difficult. Also I am not a big fan of a image the has a band of really out of focus foreground, then a band of in focus bird, and another band of really out of focus background. I prefer using the depth of field to have the foreground lead into the subject and the background lead away from the subject. Just me, thanks again for commenting.

[Robert vanMierop]

I prefer a low perspective too, however I can't agree more when I read your comment "...I am not a big fan of a image the has a band of really out of focus foreground, then a band of in focus bird, and another band of really out of focus background." It's a nit of mine too. Nice, intense expression that you've captured on this heron.

[John Mack]

A little blue in some nice blue water, what's not to like? The light is very nice. Framing is right on.