Today, on an overcast morning, I photographed these two Snowy Egrets in what i hope was a minor disagreement. After two or three passes at each other they went about their business of searching for food in the mudflats below. I had seen this kind of activity before, but had never got a picture of it. I was very pleased to have captured it.
Criticism, please . . .
Wendell,
A very fine capture indeed. I like the action. The only thing that distracts from your image is the noise in the background; just run some noise reduction and it should be fine...congrats...:cool:
Gus, I've never run noise reduction on an image. I've seen it mentioned in critiques, but I confess that I seldom recognize it. Is it the "grainy background" in this image? You see, you are dealing with a relative novice here.
Wonderful action and good exposure, Wendell; I love it! You might want to clone out what looks like some dust spots on/from your sensor and I'm wondering whether there is a slight blue cast? I'd be so happy if this were mine.
Yes, Wendell, noise is the grainy particles that show up on an image - usually when the image is dark, you use a high ISO or you do a large crop.
I've run noise reduction on your image, cloned out the specks that are from either a dirty lens or a dirty sensor, and recropped using a vertical composition. These are only suggestions but I think they help clean and strengthen the image a bit.
I think you have captured a very good action moment! The birds don't look sharp on my monitor somehow. It looks like there's a dark fringe around the egrets. The fringe shows up more noticeably on Julie's repost somehow.
Katie and Jules ---- "slight blue cast", "dust spots", a re-crop, and an improved repost; I've learned a lot on this image. I think you are right on every count. Much appreciated. Thanks! This kind of criticism is very helpful for me.
And Desmond, the "fringe" is probably a result of my perhaps overly aggressive sharpening, which I thought necessary. I'll take another look.
The noise is due to underexposure !!!! That camera being used at 200 ISO will produce little noise ..... if properly exposed !!! Guessing that with overcast conditions you should have been at close to one over !!! Mete4 is trying to make those whites gray and those whites did make up a significant part of the image.
Great action/interaction Great reaction on your part !!!!
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