Gatorland

[Nancy A Elwood]

It was such a beautiful day yesterday, which made my full day at Gatorland just perfect!! There are lots of new nests being build not only by great egrets, but by tricolor herons and cattle egrets. I wandered the boardwalk with The Quick Action Harness and my D300 and Nikon 500 f/4 lens and caught this moment. The details are f/8, iso 640, 1/2000.

[David Gancarz]

A beautiful day it was. Nice composition and moment of capture. It seems a tad overexposed on my monitor -- perhaps by 1/2 EV? I heard the little guy's 2 siblings met a bad end with the gators:(.

[Keith Carver]

Intimate moment nicely captured, Nancy. I like the tight crop and COMP. I see some halo artifacts around the adult egret - maybe resulting from NR on the BG? The whites look fine to me - in PS, the maximum white I found was about 247. Would wish to see a more blurred BG in the lower right corner, but with the youngster's crown feathers that may not be possible.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Nancy,
Always a treat to watch these guys. Whites also appear a bit hot on my monitor also. As I was there only a few weeks ago.....BG's are quite the challenge!

[Patricio Murphy]

Love the shot! Lovely capture. I also see it a little too white in my monitor.

[arash_hazeghi]

Cute shot Nancy, we had a nesting tree for snowies here a few years ago now they have moved it somewhere else and I totally miss the chicks! whites are not overexposed but you can still recover some subtle tones.

TFS

[Nancy A Elwood]

Thanks all for commenting! I decreased the whites a tad on this repost.