Great Egret

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Critique Style Requested: Standard

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Description

Saw this Great Egret in early morning light at the state park pond earlier this week.

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Does the bird contrast enough with the BG to be effective?

Technical Details

Canon R7, 400mm f4 DO IS II, 1.4x extender III, monopod
ISO 2500, f6.3, 1/4000s

Processed in DXO PureRaw 3 and Photoshop.

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Incredible golden hour light, Allen. Sometimes it almost looks unbelievable when we catch something like this. Nice pose in the egret and the background isn’t at all intrusive. Nice work.

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Wow – wonderful light, pose and detail! The bird stangs out do beautifully, I wonder if it’s possible to select it and inverse to play with the BG a bit – or maybe you did? I sort of wonder about less contrast on the BG, or maybe less saturation.

4

Great light, super full-wing pose, and fine detail on this fellow.
To me, the BG seems a little too defined to allow a focus only on the bird. A simple levels adjustment to the BG only might solve that, if you were so inclined.
Really nice image!

5

This has amazing golden light Allen. Another great BIF image. Not sure how to help with the BG.

6

Love this moment of the subject. I have no issues with the BG but, if it were mine, I’d look at slightly nudging the contrast/brightness of the subject.

7

Love the light on the egret. Nice flying pose as well. Great capture.