Juvi Great Blue Heron

[WIlliam Maroldo]

SonyA700~Sony70-400G@400mm~ISO500~F8~1/500sec~manual exposure~hand held~Brazos Bend State Park, Texas~8-1-09
CS4/Topaz Adjust3(small detail preset)/Topaz Clean2
DOF with F8 covered the head and forward angled bill pretty well, but the shoulder was a bit off.
comments and critique welcomed. regards~Bill

[denise ippolito]

Bill, I'm okay with the shoulder since you have such great details in the head and mouth. I especially like the open mouth with the tongue. The effect looks spot on.

[Dave Mills]

Hi Bill, No secret that I like your filtering technique. I felt the image was too tight on the top and on the left so I extended the canvas. I also took off some of the OOF shoulder so it was less dominant. I did this quickly so excuse any errors.

[denise ippolito]

I think that looks great!!!

[WIlliam Maroldo]

Thanks Denise and Dave, as usual I appreciate the nice comments. Good repost Dave. Certainly an improvement. What errors? regards~Bill

[Cheryl Slechta]

Bill - Your Topaz technique is incredible. This must have been an
amazingly sharp image before you added filters! I like the added canvas.

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Cheryl

[Indranil Sircar]

Bill, great composition. Agree with the above; you got great pp technique. Excellent work!