Scenes from the swamp

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Great Blue Heron 50.jpg
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Great Egret 77.jpg
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Great Egret 76.jpg
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Description

In the first two images, I am trying to show a bit of the habitat in the swamp that I visited over the weekend. Last shot is of a close up of an egret we saw there gulping down a minnow.

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How do you like the composition of the first two shots?

Technical Details

Canon R7, 200-800mm, handheld
first image: ISO 800, f9, 1/4000s
second image: ISO 2500, f9, 1/8000s
third image: ISO 1600, f9, 1/6400s

Processed in DXO PureRaw 4 and Photoshop.

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Very evocative of the feel of a deep dark swamp, Allen. An excellent series.

3

Hi allen
Nice series of photographs. I think you could bring up the background just a little in the first and third photographs.
Peter

4

Herons have a natural grace that comes up nicely in your pictures, especially the first one. I especially like its darker rendering, making it in my eyes a bit more tense, as in : when will that beak strike? Of course “gulping a minnow” is a nice moment to catch. I am still trying… :frowning:
Thank you for posting,
Xavier