BCNH Drinking

[Ian Cassell]

Don't think I've posted this one before ...

Canon 7D
Canon EF 400mm f/5,6L
1/800 sec f/6.3 ISO 800 HH

Levels, crop for composition, sharpening in CS5

[John Chardine]

Nice Black-crowned Night Heron Ian. I like the reflection. The light is soft and warm. You have adequate depth of field to get the whole bird in focus. There's good detail in the feathers but I see some noise too. It would be hard to remove the noise and retain all the detail in the subject but you could play with some gentle NR.

[gary ellwein]

Ian, like the soft light and feather detail. Good job getting everything in focus.

Gary

[Jeff Cashdollar]

Ian,

John and Gary provided good feedback. The picture seems to lack some mid tones IMO and I noticed you used levels. I might add more mids as opposed to setting the end points. Curves could help as well and so could selective color, adding +2 grey and black. Good subject placement might give the subject more room - thanks for sharing - well done.

[Kerry Perkins]

Hi Ian, don't know how I missed this one but I really like it! Love the soft, warm light and the excellent detail. You really got the most from your depth of field budget in this image. Well done!