In our neck of the woods, Great Blue Herons are extremely skittish and they avoid me like the plague. Therefore I was more than happy to find this juvenile roosting on a rock near the shore at Deer Island, New Brunswick. Once I realised the bird was there to stay I slowly approached the bird hidden behind rocks and then sat in the open about 10m away and made some images.
Very little done other than a crop, and sharpen. Perhaps some fill flash would have helped but I was lucky at least that the lighting was soft and indirect so the belly was lit.
Canon EOS 50D, 400/5.6
capture date: Friday, 2 October 2009, 1:21 PM
exposure program: Manual
ISO speed: 800
shutter speed: 1/1600
aperture: f6.3
exposure bias: +0.0
metering: Pattern
flash: OFF
Last edited by John Chardine; 10-16-2009 at 08:05 PM.
It looks as though you did well with the light you had on this juvie. Like his pose and hairdo, although would crop a little from the left. I feel he is a bit too centered, and since he is looking to the right. I would crop just a tad off of the left. The orange leichen really adds a great pop to this capture.
I like the image design as is. I teach that centered or close to it is fine, the the grass balances the COMP nicely. I love the light, the lichens, and the wind-blown crest. I could do without the white lower half of the sky and I suspect that you could too.
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