This Snowy Egret in breeding plumage, was hidden in the foliage of its habitat when it suddenly appeared in a fairly open area to photograph it. Would have liked a better view without intruding greenery but that's the habitat. Cropped a bit.
Olympus E-30
70-700mm ZD lens
EC-1.4 TC
ISO 400
1/1600 sec.
f/7.9
Aperture Priority
Matrix Metering
EV -0.70
425mm.
i love the bg here!! nice job with that. it's a tad bright. reduce the contrast and brightness a little and everything should fall right into place. a round of NR on the bg would be a big plus also. and btw, the HAP are on the way to your house so be prepared to pay the fine!!:D
Greetings. The color contrast is great (a little less so, though, when I apply an sRGB color profile. So color managed colors might stand a little warming. It would be great if you posted your images with a color profile, so those viewing with color managed browsers can see the image as intended.)
Whites are a little hot in places. A third or two less EV would have helped. They aren't strictly blown (at 253) but featureless/without contrast.
The partial breeding display is nice as is the background texture. (a little NR as mentioned would be good).
Hi Milt - like the pose - techs look pretty good - agree with the comments above - whites are a little bright in places - easy fix and some NR on the BG.
Sometimes the BG/Habitat is what it is!!
Good show :)
Hi Milt A good looking bird in smoking breeding plumage !!! Whites are easy to fix !!
btw regarding whites there are some people that would not post whites at over 228 so it would not look hot on any monitor. For this one as Michael pointed out they are close to being over !!
I like how you got the nice bg/pose and PS wise could suggest to go in and darken the pupil, will appear sharper !!! I like it a lot !!
Greetings. Hmm, let me try that again on the whites. In Photoshop you can show clipping in the curves adjustment along with the histogram. I think the image is exposed a bit too far to the right. Below the curves dialog shows the areas that are clipped at 255 and what would be clipped at 254 and 253 (top middle bottom respectively).
Three levels of white (255, 254, 253) are not enough to show much detail and the histogram tells the tale... exposed too far to the right.
You might be able to use some highlight recovery in raw conversion.
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