Prehistoric

[Don Lacy]

A close up of a Yellow crown Night Heron taken at Ft Desoto. Night Heron bills up close are mean looking things and remind me that birds are decedents of the dinosaurs.

40D, 500 f/4 +1.4TC, 1/1250 at f/7.1, Manual Mode, Evaluative Metered, ISO 400, Tripod, Small Crop

[Grace Scalzo]

The simplicity of the background really allows the viewer to focus in on the great details in your subject. Could you tease any more detail out of the white strip on his face? How big a crop is this?

[Don Lacy]

HI Grace, this is about 95% full frame very small crop I reworked the white strip but they're really is not a lot detail there.

[Daniel Cadieux]

I love the speckled iris. Nice overall portrait with a very appealing BG. The heronm feels a bit low in the frame, you could crop out 30-40% of the space above (very subjective of course).

[arash_hazeghi]

great portrait like the soft light and details well done

[Dumay de Boulle]

Lovely portrait with lovely colors. Man that eye stands out

[Wynand van Wyk]

Love the two coloured background and the great detail. Ditto on that eye, it truly is amazing!

A great portrait, well captured!

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Don, awesome portrait of a favorite bird of mine. Beautiful specimen. Wish we could get them against such BG here. BG really makes a big different here.

Great details and good that you got the crest feather up in the air.....and its not too up to make composition difficult. Alos, well done in getting parallel...very important in a closeup like this... to get that crest feather within DOF coverage.

[Tom Redd]

Don, I love the BG and the eye! Very nice.

[Tin Man Lee]

Lovely to see the bird up close, this is one of my fav species. Love the details, angle and background.