Striding Tricolored Heron

[Mike Landwehr]

This image was taken at Little Estero in mid-February. Cleaned up spots on lower bill and light area in upper right corner of image, and added some mid-tone contrast with curves. Cropped and sharpened. C & C welcome.

Mark II N
500 mm f/4
ISO 200
1/800 @ f/5.6
Tripod

[Randy Stout]

Mike:

I like the pose, light, exposure, sharpness. Excellent head angle.

Perhaps a sliver more room below if you have it.

Cheers

Randy

[Ofer Levy]

Nice and sharp. Agree regarding more room at the bottom and would like to see more room on the side too - maybe closer to 2:3

[Frank Schauf]

Beautiful portrait, great pose and colours.

[Satish Ranadive]

Fabulous portrait. Love the pose,colors and composition.

[Daniel Cadieux]

I agree with Ofer's comp suggestion, and I also believe the image needs a boost in saturation. Good profile pose, and lots of nice details.

[gail bisson]

One of the nicest TCH images I have seen. I would definitely like a bit more room below. HA is perfect,
Gail

[arash_hazeghi]

sweet love the alert pose and details would go for a 3:2 crop as mentioned

[Craig Kerr]

The exposure on the bird is superb Mike, brings out all the details and texture on the feathers.

[Roman Kurywczak]

REally like the isolation and colors here Mike! I'm fine with crop......go figure!

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Mike, great pose. that S curve is really awesome. I really like egrets because of the different options they give you with their long necks and poses. so graceful.

terrific sharpness and all the angles. agree with crop suggestions above and a tad color sat boost as Daniel mentioned.