Little blue heron silhouette

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

40D. 300 f/4 non-IS plus 1.4x. f/5.6. 1/1000. iso 320.

overexposed a bit from evaluative metering in camera. Did some more exposure, contrast, curves and color temp. adjustment in DPP. No sharpening or NR.

All critiques welcome and appreciated.

KD

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

I forgot to mention. A little canvas added at the top.

KD

[Aidan Briggs]

Nice pose, and exposure. I might warm it up a bit. You could try raising your K value higher next time. I would also crop some from the bottom as the perch is very overpowering IMO

[Harshad Barve]

very nice sil KD , I may crop a bit from bottom
TFS

[Indranil Sircar]

Beautiful composition, Kaustubh. Very much like the pose and silhouette. Another vote for the crop suggestion.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Nice frame KD, loved the wing opened pose adds well to the image, one personal suggestion would be to clone out the twigs that are reflecting at the bottom of the bird.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

thx everyone. The reason I had not cropped is I did not want to clip the logs. But I understand there is a little room there to crop. Will try.

KD