Egret reflection

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

I don't really think I have any western themes, unless you consider horses that? But dressage? :D

So I reflect upon having had no chance to enter more last week. Here is a Great Egret I added the flood effect to.

[Dave Mills]

Hi Akos, Nicely colored ,muted backround with an interesting subject.Good job with the flood effect but I would have preferred to see the whole reflection. If you look carefully around the top half of the image I noticed a number of cloning artifacts. Not hard to clean up...

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Thanks Dave
I realized that after I posted it. The clone marks. This was an effort made a long time ago. Must do a total rework of the file. :)

[Dave Phillips]

love the underwing light....being this is ootb, one might bring the wingtip and reflection to almost meet

[Cheryl Slechta]

Akos - I love the light under the wing!:)

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Cheryl

[denise ippolito]

Akos, I agree with above comments and think Dave's suggestion w/ the wingtip sounds great!! Nicely done.

[Cindy Cone]

Great capture of the egret with an unusual wing position, Akos. It lends itself to the flood effect. Dave's suggestion sounds like an interesting one.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

I only reworked the jpeg and selected BG with magic wand and used a gaussian blur. Then flooded as per Dave's suggestion and cropped so it is not symmetrically framed. I know the bird has a slight halo, but that is due to the selection and blurring.

[denise ippolito]

Nice repost Akos!!

[Cindy Cone]

Nice job on the repost, Akos.

[Christopher Miller]

Beautiful job on the repost, Akos! Very elegant!

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Thanks for looking (again). :)