This image is part of a series I created after capturing my Elegance and Grace image of the egret on black. This series was created believe it or not mostly thru in camera technique by locking my meter on the whitest white creating a dark bg. I then went in and burned all the bg area to black and then with curves I selected the darkest black point to even it all out and brightened my whites. Sharpening and color saturation used back when I had elements 7.0 I used no "layer technique" and am a little embarressed to say i still don't know how to work with layers although I do want to learn. I think I created about 6 or so of different poses shot at different times but all from the same local rookery near my house. I am sad to say that we no longer are permitted to shoot there as it is on private property or so they say so these images are pretty special to me. As much as I hated the noise created with the 40 D the sharpness of these images from that camera and my 300 mm L lens just blow me away, even with the 2X on it.
Canon 40D 300 mm 2.8 L ISlens w 2x
ISO 200 f8 @1/1600
camera leaning on a towel on a fence with me standing on a step stool.
OOPs I forgot to mention thatI added canvas to throw off the centered bird.
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