Great Egret at Dawn ~ Golden Fall Marsh

[Jim Fenton]

A late in the season Great Egret at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge this past week.

Nikon D300s, 500VR, ISO 500, F6.3, 1/3200, NearUniWB, CW metering, +.3 EV

[Dave Blinder]

Very nice Jim. Looks sharp, good HA, spacing looks good for me, and I really do enjoy the BG too.

[Stu Bowie]

Pin sharp Jim, with excellent detail and exposure. I like the take off posture, and the colour of the surrounding grasses puts this over the top for me. Well captured.

[Doug Brown]

The bird looks great against those nice fall colors. Exposure and sharpness look quite good. Nice image.

[Randy Stout]

Jim:

Nicely captured image, like the pose and composition. Feels like fall. Nice to see so much light and detail under the far wing.

I might knock down the sheen a long the legs a bit.

Cheers

Randy

[Jim Fenton]

As far as the brightness of the legs goes, I had actualy originally knocked it down as Randy sugggested.

In doing so, the detail also became more subdued and as this was what it looked like in the field, I opted to leave it as captured.

[Dave Leroy]

Very nice Jim. I like the composition of the out stretched bird. BG is very nice as well. Dave

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the take-off pose, sharpness, BG and composition and would only tone down the highlights some more.

[Gal Shon]

That is one beautiful image...
I love the wing position, tail, great exposure, sharpness, Comp, pose,
eye contact and the surrounding (FG & BG). well done.

[Harshad Barve]

everything already said , I liked wing pose and BG very much
TFS

[Dave Barnes]

Very well exposed showing nice detail in the white feathers. The comp, foreground and OOFBG all work well.
The bird contrasts well with the BG. Pleasing image.

[arash_hazeghi]

Excellent golden BG Jim, it goes well with the whites!!! Everything spot on, TFS.