Snowy Egret Preening

[Roger Williams]

This image was made on the beach at Rincon de Guayabitos, Mexico last week. The bird was fishing and abruptly struck this preening pose. The image was a bit underexposed and I added contrast with PS. This is a vertical crop from an original horizontal frame.

Camera: Canon 40D
Lens: Canon 70-200mm f/4L IS @ 200
ISO: 200
Aperture: f/ 5.6
Shutter speed: 1/780
no flash
hand held

Comments?

roger

[Axel Hildebrandt]

The pose is very nice. It is quite oversharpened and there is a very distracting sharpening and S/H halo around the legs. It needs a bit CW rotation and I might clone out some of the dark spots in the BG.

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Roger Didn't see the exp comp but imagine it was a bit under? Remember to select the bird for S/H Will prevent the halo Better still hail the exposure and won't have to use !!!

Agree with Axel on the over sharpening Do love the pose !!!!

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Love the great pose captured in this image and ditto Axel's and Alfred's comments. Thanks for sharing Roger.