Snowy Egret

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image of a snowy flying over the water at Ft. Desoto County Park in Pinellas County, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 500mm F/5.6 VR AF-S ED PF, Handheld
1/4000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 360 Auto 1 WB, Image captured at 500mm (750mm 35mm Equivalent)
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2021 and Neat Image for noise reduction
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Volkan Akgul]

It's beautiful with the backdrop.

congratulations.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Just enough variation in the BG to add interest, although there may be a very faint cloning spot above the egret (more visible when scroll the image up and down). Worth smoothing out. Good wings-down pose, and the whites look great to me.

[John Mack]

Looks great against that background. Nice detail on the bird.

[Jonathan Ashton]

The bird looks great, details and tones very good, (once I noticed the blemish in the sky it kept drawing my attention).

[Dorian Anderson]

These guys are common seemingly everywhere, but i never get tired of them. Love the colors here, and you really nailed the exposure and detail. I would clone out the reflected second catchlight in the eye. Just enough of the far wing to give the image some depth of field. Bravo.