Reddish Egret (White Morph) feeding in lagoon at Ft. Desoto North Beach
Canon EOS 1D Mark 2, 500mm lens, manual exposure, evaluative metering, auto white balance, ISO 400, 1/1250 at f6.3. Exposed March of 2007 @ 8 am. Spotted, bumped up blues, sharpened. Fascinating hunting techniques: didn't stand still longer than a second. Shaded sun's glare with its wings to see tiny fish.
Last edited by glenshellhammer; 05-12-2011 at 09:51 PM.
Excellent behavioural capture for feeding, with the 'umbrella' wing position. Exposure looks good, and agree that a CCW rotation is needed, together with a tad more space on the left. When cropping your image, always have a look out for lines in your image to base your rotation if needed. Then its a just a small matter of using one of the corners to rotate the image to suit.
The white morph at Ft de Soto is pretty dependable about showing up in the late afternoon and sometimes in the AM. You must have been standing on the East side of the lagoon to get that lighting in the AM. Were you walking in the water or using a tripod from the shore? Good whites. Glad you got some of the eye. Yes it needs a little rotation.