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This was taken at Orlando Wetlands on an early morning when it was terribly foggy. I liked how the softness and the specular, grey background worked with the white egret to make a high-key image.
Technical Details
A lucky accident. I simply shot as I saw the bird take off but I think the wings are perfectly placed. ISO 640, 1/500, f6.3
I really like the ethereal feel of this image, Veda. The high key presentation works quite well. I think a little more room on the right would be nice and my eye keeps getting drawn to the branches in the lower left, primarily because they’re so much denser and sharper than anything else in the image. I think fading them way out or removing them completely would keep attention focused where you want it.
Welcome to the birding group on this site. I think you’ll enjoy it and look forward to seeing more of your images and reading your comments on other people’s efforts.
Hi Veda. This one caught my eye from the thumbnail. I like the high key effect and like the pose you caught the egret in. I could see removing the branches in the LLC to keep with the more muted effect of the image. Very nicely done.
Hi Veda, as your other commentor have said, the high key aspect of this looks great as does the bird’s pose. Cloning out those sticks in the lower left corner would be a good improvement in a nicely dreamy photo.
My response was a bunch of O’s with a couple of H’s at the end! Love the tone and reduced contrast in this one. Even the blurry reeds in the foreground seem to go well with this! Really, really nice.
Terrific placement within the frame, great separation from the other elements. The echoed shape of the legs in the limbs is wonderful, and the highlights in the bokeh are gorgeous to my eye. The wing position is fresh and uncommon, and conveys energy.
I think this sort of shot needs space to “fly into” so a 2x3 crop with space on the right might be a positive? Just a thought.
What a great mood you captured Veda with a complimentary background and the touch of greenery adds a lot. Really nice pose from the bird. I could see more room on the right.
Yes, the high key look is quite effective. I too think there could be more space on the right. I’d also increase the saturation of the yellow beak. Nicely done.
Wonderful shot with the wings in great position. I like the etherealness to the image with the nice clean background and the OOF grasses in the foreground. My immediate thought was the sharply defined twigs on the left distracted from all of the other stuff in the image. But maybe it just adds a contrasting element to anchor the scene. I think I would lean towards cloning them out if it were my image. Very nicely composed and rendered!
Hi Veda,
I am not a bird photographer, so I rarely know how to respond to bird images, but this one compelled me to chime in. Everything about it (the egret/heron’s pose, the high key treatment, the soft background, the foreground reeds on the right) make this very painterly and pleasing. It reminds me of a Japanese print.
I can see the value of more space on the right, but I also think sometimes that is relative to the space on the left. If you don’t have more canvas to the right, I would consider cropping a bit off the left, cloning out some of the twigs, and thereby emphasizing the rightward direction.
Perhaps something like this (just a screenshot with white highlight over the twigs to remove)
A very lovely image! I like the high key treatment and the vegetation is a nice extra. I don’t really object to the stuff in the LL corner as it sort of matches the legs – strange as that may sound! The grasses in hte LR corner are pleasantly OOF and the bird fits into the space so well. Very nice image!!!
Veda: there’s a soft and ethereal quality to the image that keeps me looking at it at length. I would like to see a version with the twigs in the LLC cloned out. Beautiful.
