Reddish Egret

[WIlliam Maroldo]

SonyA850~Sony70400G@400mm~ISO1000~1/1600sec~F8~manual exposure~haze~HH~4-18-2011~Bryan Beach(near Freeport), Texas~CS5/Redfield Fractalius
This reddish egret is displaying breeding colors and actively hunting at the time. My usual fractalius treatment. regards~Bill

[denise ippolito]

Nice pose, head turn and filtering effect applied.

[Andrew McLachlan]

Love the pose and the fract treatment too! Very nice work!

[Brendan Dozier]

Very nice, Bill! Interesting pose, like the colors and treatment.
Great as is, but wondering what it would be like if you added that golden color on the neck feathers, to the feathers on the back, and added a bit more grainy texture to background.

[Indranil Sircar]

Nice pose and colors, Bill. As always, your fract treatment makes it so much interesting.

[WIlliam Maroldo]

Thanks everyone! Brendan; thanks for the suggestions. Adding a golden color to the back feathers?
The reddish egret has reddish head and neck feathers, all other feathers are gray, so I don't think I ought to change that. Adding grain to the background? I've gotten complaints about grainy backgrounds before, which I actually have a high tolerance for, but still I wouldn't want to add it. Sounds like work.
I'm pretty lazy when it comes to processing and work hard to get the image right straight out of the camera. Sure, a few adjustments in ACR, but after a few minutes I'm good to go. With fractalius I make sure the base image is a good candidate, do a few PS adjustments, then use one of the several fractalius actions I've created, and I'm done. regards~Bill

[Scott Vincent]

Bill, great base image and capture of the fishing behavior! I love the antics of Reddish Egrets!!