White Egret

[Ken Lassman]

Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Delray Beach, FL

Approaching the nesting area about 1/2 hour before sunset. Finally clear skies and great lighting after several days of rain and high winds

Nikon D300
Nikon 300/2.8 VR lense
ISO 400
F/4 @ 1/1600
Manual
Hand held

[Randy Stout]

Ken:

Interesting top line and wings, very angular. like how well the alulas show up.

The image quality seems to be suffering from too big of a crop, or post processing. Not much fine detail visible, and overall a bit soft.

How big of crop was this?

Glad you finally got some decent weather!

Randy

[Ken Lassman]

Hi Randy,

I cropped the left side and some of the bottom. The lighting was the soft glow before sunset which flattened out the wing details and I was only about 30-40 yards away. What should I do to adjust this in CS4 (just learning). I was really happy with the in flight wing position and would like to make this better. Thanks.

Ken

[Randy Stout]

Ken:

What post have you done to the image so far?
Perhaps put up a straight jpeg from raw file repost here, no post at all, and people can see what tweaks might be done to improve it.

Randy

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Randy has pretty much covered it all Ken but I like the drop you chose for this image and the upward flight pose. Your timing was perfect. Keep them coming !!!!