Black-Crowned Night Heron

[Vilma Rodriguez]

D700 70-200 f/2.8 + 1.4TC (@390mm)
1/1600 f/8 ISO 400

Thanks for your comments,
Vilma

[Bill Dix]

Lovely flight shot. Good sharp eye, and great gradation of the whites, grays and blacks. And nice down-wing position. Giving him some space in front to fly into would help, IMHO.

[Bob Decker]

Good looking shot. I don't recall seeing flight images of Night Herons very often.... heck, seeing the bird at all seems a bit rare. ;) A quick nit - you might resize it a bit smaller. It's not best to present an image in a manner that requires scrolling from side to side and up/down to see the entire image. Makes it difficult to critique the composition as you can't see it as a single view. 1000 px on the widest side works best for horizontal presentations.

Color rednition looks good, as does exposure. Love the catch-light in the eye. Resonably detailed image and I like the wing position. It seems a bit centered, but again, hard to tell when having to scroll to view the entier image. I suspect a little more space in front of the bird for it to "move into" would help the composition.

Well done.

[Troy Lim]

Good looking shot. I don't recall seeing flight images of Night Herons very often.... heck, seeing the bird at all seems a bit rare. ;) A quick nit - you might resize it a bit smaller. It's not best to present an image in a manner that requires scrolling from side to side and up/down to see the entire image. Makes it difficult to critique the composition as you can't see it as a single view. 1000 px on the widest side works best for horizontal presentations.

Color rednition looks good, as does exposure. Love the catch-light in the eye. Resonably detailed image and I like the wing position. It seems a bit centered, but again, hard to tell when having to scroll to view the entier image. I suspect a little more space in front of the bird for it to "move into" would help the composition.

Well done.

+1.
And another round of sharpening.

[Harold Davis]

this looks really good, vilma. i'd add some canvas to the right to give the bird some room to fly into and maybe another round of sharpening of the eye.

in a perfect world you would have wanted a few frames earlier with the bird flying towards you and not being past you. but this aint bad either!!

[Dave Mills]

Hi Vilma, Good advice given above regrding subject placement.Nice lighting, reasonably good detail and wing position. Good one!

[Lance Peters]

Hi - Agree with all the above suggestions - agree on the sharpening - some more detail can be coaxed out of that.
Selectively sharpened the bird and added a little canvas up front.
:)

[Harold Davis]

niiiiiiiiccccccee job, mate!!!! that's the bombdiggity there!!!

[Vilma Rodriguez]

Thank you everyone for your advice. I already added canvas in the original image and sharpened more, based on Lance's repost; many thanks, Lance, for taking the time. I learned a lot from this posting.

Regards to all,
Vilma