Hi Gary. Nice concept, and I think, with a little tweaking, the composition is quite good as well. However, I see several problems. The juvenile green heron is underexposed, and noise is a problem. I don't know if you used exposure compensation, but with green herons, a +1 or so is usually called for. There also seems to be a something sort of cloning errors on the lower left limb, and birds right foot. It could be too slow a shutter speed, showing a blur. I'm not sure what is going on, but it doesn't look right.
Personally, with such a situation I would certainly go high key, with a dark bird and light BG. I'd overexpose alot, more than 2 stops. Of course I like high key, and you may not, but there is the added advantage that overexposure reduces noise problems considerably, and even at ISO 1000 it should be manageable.
It just occurred that a fill-flash would have been useful too.
regards~Bill
Last edited by WIlliam Maroldo; 10-15-2009 at 10:38 PM.
Hi Gary!
I love the composition and might even be tempted to crop from just below the bird's back foot. I do love the BG in this - although I too see some noise - so although I think that high-key would work well, it would be a pity to lose those soft colours.
Best,
Nicki
Hi Gary,
600+ the 1.4 HH......after reading that I threw my initial flash recommendation away......it would have probably blown out the branch too but definitely popped the colors if it reached. Did he ever get higher up on the perch and more into the golden colors?
Thanks guys for the great suggestions. I guess I could have flashed him but then no one else would have gotten a shot. Yes there was some bad cloning -its clearer on my desktop than my laptop now that I'm home. There was only time for each person to get one maybe two shots then he was gone.
Green Heron
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