Excited Snowy

[Joerg Rockenberger]

I was SO not prepared for an aggravated and excited Snowy Egret suddenly to show up right in front of me - with a 1.4 TC on a 40D with the 500F4...

Tried to make the best of it - a portrait. Cropped from the horizontal.

Thanks, JR

Canon 40D, 500F4IS, Canon 1.4 TC, 1/1250, F8, ISO200, Manual Exposure, Gitzo w/ Mongoose 3.5a

[ramesh anantharaman]

hey John

this is wonderful. a little more space would have done magic.

ramesh

[Simon Bennett]

That's quite a spray of feathers, very sharp around the eye too.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Killer hairdo brother, agree about the little more space around and a bit tone down of the whites on the neck, but a beautiful image indeed, congrats..

[Harshad Barve]

now look at hairdo here :D:D
Stunningly beautiful image
TFS

[Hendri Venter]

I like the tight crop and hairdo. Splendid image!!

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Excellent sharpness on the hairdo. I would not mind a square crop on this one.

KD

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Looks great John! Like how you achieved this despite the limitations with your gear at the time. :)

[Aidan Briggs]

Nice light, BG, and exposure, I like the crested feathers. I agree about toning down the neck a tad.

Keep them coming.

[DanWalters]

Great portrait! Love the details in the feathers.

[Dave Phillips]

love it when the snowies do this pose....great sharp well exposed catch John.

IMO, the neck is fine.....looks perfect on my monitor and histo looks good too

[Joerg Rockenberger]

Thank you all for the kind feedback. I am bit surprised about the suggestion to tone down the whites on the neck as the whites are in the 220 - 230 range for RGB. Also, if I look at the histogram and adjust the white point in levels the neck area only becomes blown when I move the slider well into the histogram. There are a few blown pixels in the image but those are around the face.

JR

[Joerg Rockenberger]

IMO, the neck is fine.....looks perfect on my monitor and histo looks good too

Thanks for your kind comment and looking at the histogram too. JR