Egret

[Lance Peters]

took this one on the weekend after a very careful approach by crawling up the river in a couple of inches of wtaer.

D3
Nikon 300mm F2.8 with 1.7 X converter
F4.8
1/2000th
0 EV
400 ISO
Handheld

comments welcome.
:)

[Tony Whitehead]

Nice comp with the bird looking into the image. The extended leg balances the image well and I like the plumes and BG. I would try and back off the halos a bit.

[Lance Peters]

Hi Tony - thanks - was looking abit soft when I resized for the web so added some more sharpening - thanks for spottint that for me :)

[Juan Aragonés]

The low angle cann´t be better Lance and I like a lot the eye contact and the "alert" pose of the egret. Sweet BG. I would try to warm the image a little bit because it seems cold on my screen. Very good job!

[Doug Brown]

I like it as presented Lance, in particular the low angle and nice pose.

[Stu Bowie]

Superb low angle, and I think you have exposed the whites nicely Lance. Well captured.

[bill kominsky]

Great low angle Lance and the exp. eye contact and feather detail are awesome. One little thing Lance is that black spot on the bottom left of the foot that I find distracting
very sorry to have to say, but otherwise fantastic.

Bill

[Beth Goffe]

Beautiful image and bravo for crawling through the water to get it! The only thing I might add to the other criticisms is that I think it could use a slight CCW rotation.

[Nagesh Mula]

Liked the smooth BKGR here and the white bird in this BG really shines up.