Cattle Egret Breeding Colors

[Fabs Forns]

Captured during our St Augustine Alligator Farm workshop, early AM.

Model: NIKON D3
Lens (mm): 300/4
ISO: 800
Aperture: 4
Shutter: 1/1250
Manual flash

[Ramon M. Casares]

Great pose, colors, detail, exposure, and the twig is a very nice plus, some more room at the top, IMO, would improve comp.
Congratulations!

[Kiran Poonacha]

Beautiful one fabs.. loved the colours and as RMC mentioned the twig adds well here..

[Dave Barnes]

I would also be inclined to take a bit off the bottom and add a tad above.
Breading colours well captured and exposure looks spot on. Nice pose.

[Raymond Barlow]

Nice flight shot Fabs, the stick is a bonus!

[Joe Senzatimore]

One sweet fligt shot. Love the breeding colors on these birds. Great job on exposure as well. I like the comp. just as it is.

[Ilija Dukovski]

The colors here are just beautiful.
Very nice whites too. I just realized it is
the stick that actually makes it much more interesting
than any flight shot. I like it.

[Gyorgy Szimuly]

Nice image Fabs. Lovely wing stretch.
I find the head and feet a bit soft.

Szimi

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

ULC appears a little tight for me, but only just. awesome pose and colors. Love this image all around Fabs. :) Agree with Gyuri ;) above, though I feel the head's OK.

[Brian Barcelos]

Very nice Fabs. I agree with giving it just a little bit of room up top. I love the transition of colors from the tip of the beak to the eye.

Brian

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great plumage, exposure control and the stick adds to it. I agree with Gyorgy regarding a bit more sharpening.

[Stu Bowie]

Excellent exposure on the whites Fabs, and those breeding colours show up nicely. Building material always adds to the image. Maybe you could take a tiny piece off the bottom, but add a bit more on top.

[Chris Kotze]

Super flight angle well captured and exposed.