Great Blue Heron Plumage Detail.
A bit similar to Joe's spoonbill he posted a couple of weeks ago. Always a treat to photograph plumage details from point-blank range with cooperative individuals. This heron stayed there well over an hour not minding my business, so all manner of photographic experimentation was possible. Here is one of my favorites form that session. Full-frame image, with just a few "dandruff" flakes removed via spot removal tool...plus tweaked contrast and saturation to taste.
Canon 7DII + 500mm f/4 II 1.4TC III, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/200s., f/11, ISO 1600, natural light, handheld (while using the "kneepod" technique). I had to lower the downsizing quality quite a bit to make the image file size fit the upload limit.
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