Molten gold at Little Estero

[Randy Stout]

There have been so many nice sunset images coming from Artie's recent SW Florida IPT, that I thought I would throw mine in.

D300 70-200 200mm f/4.5 1/640s ISO 250 Handheld

Post: CS5 selective sharpening, crop for comp, minor curves

I thought the gold with touches of blue was striking and went well with the great egret

Advice and thoughts always appreciated.

Cheers

Randy

[Paul Lagasi]

The water color is lovely, agree that water goes well with the Egret. A lovely image...TFS

[Charles Scheffold]

Beautiful! The vertical composition really complements the bird. Colors are lovely.

Charles

[Indranil Sircar]

Randy, this is gorgeous! I like your framing here. The colors are excellent as is the sharpness. It was a great evening of photography... I am yet to go through all the images!

[Gary Esman]

The touch of blue with the copper water color is very cool. Great shot all around. TFS

Gary

[Ron Caswell]

Looks great Randy, Beautiful sunset colors, Ron

[Grace Scalzo]

Wonderful colors, Randy. I've looked at this a few times. It is lovely.

[Steven Kersting]

I guess I'm the only one who prefers the white to be more white?....



Looking at them both here it does change the feeling of the image a bit.....

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Randy,
Love the color on the water and the sunset colors on the bird lok fine too! I am always amazed when the bird guys want to whiten sunset colors! Guess it's a landscaper thing to want the warm light!

[Troy Lim]

Very nice shot, I like this image. :)

[Stu Bowie]

Hey Randy, super pose, and you have placed the egret nicely in the frame. I like the ripple effect in the water, and of course, the colours puts this over the top. An opportunity well used.

[Randy Stout]

Thanks everyone for the comments and advice.

Steven: Your repost didn't show up unfortunately. I agree the white balance in this image is very warm.
this was taken around sunset, so wanted to convey the 'golden light' feeling. I may try a version with the bird whiter.


Cheers

Randy

[Steven Kersting]

Thanks everyone for the comments and advice.

Steven: Your repost didn't show up unfortunately. I agree the white balance in this image is very warm.
this was taken around sunset, so wanted to convey the 'golden light' feeling. I may try a version with the bird whiter.


Cheers

Randy

I wonder why it didn't show, I can see it....it's posted here in an album.

Anyways, just shifting the WB ruins the image. Also had to go shift the saturation/luminance of yellow/reds to get the water colors right again.