I took the image of this heron back in the summer of 2016 and I’ve been playing with it ever since. I posted it in Avian shortly after I took it. It happened to pop up on my rolling desktop background yesterday and it occurred to me that it might look better with smoother water. This afternoon I stole some water from a recent image, then completely reprocessed the heron using luminosity masks to bring up the darker areas.
I started to get fancy and use some art filters on the bird as well, but nothing seemed to work, so I left it at that.
Dennis, I think the merge, in general, works, but the far left side of the merge looks a bit strange to me. Not sure why, but it gets my attention. The merge could also be a bit less defined. Otherwise, I really like this. I love the light on the heron and its position in the frame.
Beautiful look at a heron in flight. I like the overall mood of the scene with the dark water and sky and the light on the heron, but feel that the cloudy area on the left competes with the heron for attention and detracts from the overall mood.
Beautiful image - great to see you venturing into PA !
I’d like to see the heron a bit separated from the left clouds. The light on it is beautiful.
Sandy
