Snowy Egret

[Nagesh Mula]

I was lucky here as I was shooting coots and this guy flew from somewhere and sat just next to me.

Specs: 100-400mm @ 400mm, 1/400 @ f/7.1, ISO 250, EC-1/3, Handheld

Would like your opinion.

Thanks,
Nagesh Mula

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

I really like the bg`s color,eye contact and the light!!!

[Don Thompson]

Very nice.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great light, portrait, BG colors and details. I might clone out the dark spot underneath the tip of the bill.

[Dave Phillips]

very nice.....time of day?

halo around bill is a bit strong IMO

[Juan Aragonés]

I like it a lot Nagesh. This image is an excelent compositional job. SUPERB BG and great sharpness. I only can imagine a way to improve it a little more and it is doing some white point adjustment and noise reduction on the BG. Something like this:

[Nagesh Mula]

Beautiful Juan, I like your perspective very much.

[Juan Aragonés]

I am glad to hear that you liked :) Here are the steps I did: 1) duplicate layer, 2) in the new layer use de magic wand tool to select the BG and delete it, 3) made the white point adjustment at your choice on the egret, 4) turn the opacity of the layer about the 50% (you should fine the value that you like the most), 5) added a litle USM round to the egret 6) then I go to the main layer and I added a round of noise reduction and 7) save the image

Really nice image with a veru nice light and composition Nagesh

Beautiful Juan, I like your perspective very much.