Here is another photo of the same fluffed-up great blue heron from two days ago. This time I got him coming directly at me, and from pretty close up, too. It ain't a real pretty sight, but is a pose I don't see often (actually "unfluffed", which happened soon after, he was a very pretty bird). Cropped and tweaked. C&C, please.
Hi Wendell - is this his Super Hero Pose ??? - Like it :)
Think I would crop vertical here getting rid of some of the negative space either side. Head/Eye isn't as sharp as the neck area - maybe some more DOF or check were your focus point was - the whites on the head are up there but not over.
Did you selectively sharpen the bird??? some of the foreground looks quite sharp.
Keep em coming :)
Was going to say also a bit of a blue cast. Nice behaviour capture Wendell. A bit more of a head turn would have made it ideal I think. Like Lance's idea of a vertical.
Hi wendall..........Hilarious pose....I agree a turn of the head would help and selectively sharpen just the bird...and let the rest go soft. ......a vertical crop would eliminate a lot of unnnecssary space.
Thanks, everyone, for your critiques -- I agree with them all. I learn something with almost every post, and in many cases wonder why i did not see the problems before I posted. Learning the "why" of this bird's fluffing practice is an added bonus, Alfred. I had tried to find out about it on the Web but came up with reasons like the bird is cold, etc., which I knew could not have been the case on this warm Southern California morning.
More fluffing (GBH)
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