Purple Heron

[Stu Bowie]

I was quite happy to capture this guy in the open. Taken over the Milnerton lagoon in Cape Town.

Canon 50D
100-400 @ 400mm
1/6400
F/5.6
ISO 400

Exp Comp +0.33
Hand Held

[stuart wanuck]

love the image nice wing position think i would cut down yellow saturation somewhat

[Randy Stout]

Stuart:

Nice light, well exposed, sharp on the wing, a bit less so on the eye. Looks like he is angling away from us a bit.

Cheers

Randy

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Stuart,
Nice image. I agree with Randy. A narrow aperture would have been great. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Morkel Erasmus]

agree the angle slightly away from the viewing pane but I would be happy with his Stu - it's in good light and I've yet to get a purple one in my bag...

[Arthur Morris]

Love this bird and the wing position. The yellows and the d-o-f look fine to me. The eye and face could be spruced up and sharpened just a tad. The bird seems perfectly parallel to the back of the camera; the head angled away is most unfortunate. From where you were you did everything perfectly...

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the light, wing position and sharpness and agree that it would be even stronger if the bird were angled toward you.

[Markus Jais]

Beautiful shot. I like the vertical cropping. Artie already commented on the head angle. I think the yellow looks just fine. Great sharpness and light.
I love Purple Herons - would love to have such a shot.

Markus

[DanWalters]

Like the position of the wing and the nice light really brings out the colors in the heron.

[Michael Zajac]

Stuart, Agree w/ comments already given, Just want to add that the details are great and so is the light.

[Stu Bowie]

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

[arash_hazeghi]

love the soft light, colors and sharpness, only wish the bird was coming towards you. TFS

[Stu Bowie]

Thanks a stack Arash.

[Doug Brown]

You nailed exposure and sharpness. Wing position is excellent. The head angle, as mentioned above, could be better. I like the pano crop too.

[Stu Bowie]

Thanks a stack Doug.