Great Egret Flight

[WIlliam Maroldo]

SonyA700~Sony70-400G@330mm~ISO1250~F6.3~1/1250 sec~manual exposure~10-12-2009~Brays Bayou, Houston, Texas~CS4/Redfield Fractalius.
Fractalius used for background.
comments and critique welcomed. regards~Bill

[denise ippolito]

Bill, I like the fractilius in the BG it looks awesome. The bird needs a bit more room to fly into IMO.

[Mark Fuge]

Nice image and application, Bill.

I would suggest adding some canvas on both ends. But,

Your image ... Your vision.

[Patti Edens]

I like what fractalius did to the background! And the egret is fantastic - sharp from wingtip to wingtip and perfectly exposed.

[Dave Phillips]

I love the bg all by itself......would be awesome with the right silhouette.
Great to see you departing some from the Topaz Clean(but your "clean" technique is soooooper)

[WIlliam Maroldo]

Thanks guys and gals! Dave: I don't plan on departing from the usual. I'm still perfecting it. Although fractalius does have a potential for interesting backgrounds, as far as fitting into my workflow for avian images, which concentrates on texture enhancement, I don't see any radical new direction. I have created a number of abstact images with fractalius that are quite fascinating, yet this isn't a forum for such works. I could put them on my personal website though. Nonetheless I appreciate you turning me on to it! regards~Bill

[denise ippolito]

Bill, I would be very interested in seeing some of your abstracts and so would others. I would encourage you to post them.

[WIlliam Maroldo]

Thanks Denise. The problem I saw was that, although you might not be able to tell in the final image, the base images are not necessarily nature based. I thought I read that in the guidelines; they needed to be nature based. regards~Bill