Flying Snowy

[Scott Frye]

Snowy Egret at Gilbert Water Ranch (Gilbert, Arizona)

1/4000 at f7.1 and ISO400 EC -1
Bigma at 500mm
Canon 40D

[Kobus Tollig]

Great pose and bg well done. I would light it up a bit and add some space top and right. Nice one well done

[Mark Dumbleton]

Super wing position. Agree on adding room to create a more pleasing composition.

[Randy Stout]

Scott:

Excellent wing position and although I think the bird is angling ever so slightly away from you, the head is turned back just enough.

On my monitor, the whites are pretty grey. I would set the white point off the brightest whites, which really perks the whites up without altering the background much.

An easy way to identify the spot to set the white point off of is to use levels and curves, pull the highlight slider in until you see blown whites on the highlight screen, then use the first area that blows as your location to set the white point. I use NX2 generally, but am pretty sure you can do the same in CS4.

I agree with Kobus about a bit more room front and top.

Cheers

Randy

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the wing position, details and eye contact. Adding to the other comments, do you have an image in this series with the bird flying toward you?

[Morkel Erasmus]

great pose and detail in this - I'm with Kobus on the space and I like what Randy has done with the whites.

[Chris Kotze]

Super shot, well exposed and captured

[Scott Frye]

Good job Randy -- I will work on those whites and I like your redo. I have room for a larger crop and can correct that easily enough -- thanks for the comments on cropping.