you know those times when you see a bird and you know good and well its just too busy to even consider taking the picture? I wasn't listening this day. I loved the perfect reflection and wanted to try for it anyway. so I was wondering, is it interesting at all?
cloned out a little of the branch over the upper bird's head, desaturated the brighter colors in some of the foliage.
sharpening and tonal contrast in cs5, pretty big crop in LR.
1/1250 sec at 4/4, iso 400, 500mm f/4 lens at 500mm, manual, handheld, 1dmk4
thank you for any comments and suggestions for improving it, and totally understand if you say just to forget it!!
This is a very interesting image Pat, and one of those that you could almost turn upside down and no one would notice. The light is beautiful. The habitat is messy but not much you can do without a lot of work. What makes the image quite different is that the bird is elevated above the water and so you have this major gap between the bird and its reflection.
thanks John, I didn't want to try to make the picture into something it wasn't, so i was pretty much ok with the mess. (while wishing, of course, that it would all just magically disappear in time for me to take a clean picture) I'm keeping an eye on the branch it was on and trying to see if there is a different angle i might have used. BlackCrown Night Herons hang out on the tree next to it so maybe i'll get another chance there...
2 for 1 - green heron in habitat
