Blackheaded Heron

[Stu Bowie]

Out the archives. Taken at the University of Pretoria sports grounds. Taken late afternoon, and I liked the warm colours created by the light.

Canon 20D
100-400 @ 400mm
1/1000
F/7.1
ISO 400

Exp Comp +0.33
Hand Held

[Loukie Viljoen]

Good composition, good light

[Morkel Erasmus]

lovely golden African light Stu. great pose and exposure too, and HA looks nice...

[denise ippolito]

Stuart, Beautiful wing details and warm light. Exposure looks good. Nicely framed.

[Kiran Khanzode]

Great comp, I love the golden hue, great sharpness and beautiful wing position.

[Randy Stout]

Stuart:

Nice wing position,eye,birds angle in the frame.

From a personal standpoint, I would add a bit of space below and a sliver to the right.

The golden light is nice. I did try a version at slightly lower color temp, which brought the blue in the sky up but maintained most of the golden light effect. Just an option. To my eye, the original is starting to show almost a subtle greenish cast.

As always, you are the artist, your choice.

Cheers


Randy

[Daniel Cadieux]

Great pose and light. Love the feather details under the wing. As posted the face could use an extra dose of sharpening, and I would fix the PP artefact in LLC (white line along edge).

[Stu Bowie]

Thanks a lot guys and Denise.

Randy, good advice on the sky - thanks.

Dan, sharp eyes, I should have picked it up. You also picked up that very OOF branch across the tail of my recent posts. That I never saw, until you pointed it out. Thanks a stack.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great light, wing position and eye contact. I would put the bird a tad higher in the frame and run NR on the BG and yes to fixing the lower left area.

[Jim Fenton]

Love the light, body positon and eye contact and I'm impressed with the ability to have nice detail from wingtip to wingtip at f 7.1.

I ight try it with the subject just a tad higher on the frame?

[David Fletcher]

Wonderful shot Stu. Great light and some good suggestions made. (Good thing about the value of a thousand pairs of eyes.... don't miss much). :D. fine shot!!!! Dave

[Doug Brown]

Lovely light, wing position, and sharpness. Another vote for placing the bird slightly higher in the frame and for running some NR on the BG.

[Harshad Barve]

lovely wing pose and awsome light , good suggations already made
TFS

[Raymond Barlow]

all points made, superb image Stuart.

[Rob Drummond]

Wonderful light and detail Stuart

cheers
Rob

[Marc Mol]

All points mentioned, great light & comp Stuart.

[Stu Bowie]

Thank you all so much for the kind words. Much appreciated.