Camera Model Canon EOS-1D Mark II N, Shooting Date/Time 2/14/2009 8:10:36 AM, Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE, Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/4000, Av( Aperture Value ) 2.8, Metering Mode Evaluative Metering, Exposure Compensation 0, ISO Speed 200, Lens EF300mm f/2.8L IS USM, RAW, White Balance Mode Auto, AF Mode AI Servo AF.
At Anhinga Trail down by the first turn to the left, right at the waters edge in the ditch. What a sweet place to be, right now!
For me the image is a bit busy, or you could say the bird is well hidden in the camouflage. Why did you use the wide open aperture? Isolation of the bird in such busy environment is difficult. On a side note: he does not look straight down the barrel. Getting closer and more tight would have helped to get a better less busy picture.
Closing down would have made it even more lost in the BG by making the front and back reeds sharper...I would have been tempted to photograph wide open too. Unless you are lucky this is pretty much the busy habitat these guys are found in.
Not "straight down the barrel", as Clemens points out, but we'll pretend it was for someone else just out of the frame.
Good to see you posting images again. Yes to a cluttered environment, but that is where they live.
If you could have moved a step to your left, might have improved the separation from the reed behind his head a bit.
American Bittern: Straight Down The Barrell
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