This is the same egret from a previous post that I shot at Chincoteague. It flew back and forth between this perch and another one in between gorging on shrimp and fish.
This is full frame. In post, I fixed the white balance (it was a little too green), ran a curves adjustment for contrast, resized, sharpened the bird, reduced noise on the BG, burned down a few bright spots in the BG, and cleaned up a few spots in the water. All C&C welcome.
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Wow Lyle, you just got it in the frame. Just like your last post of this bird I love the dark background. Bird is nice and sharp and a good landing position too and those yellow feet sure stick out. Nice clean underwing dark areas where you would normally get a little noise at high ISO’s but this looks really good.
Excellent, Lyle. I love the contrast with the dark background and the landing pose is great. The light along the top of the “perch-to-be” really adds to this image.
Pretty much perfect in my book, Lyle, that’s such a sweet landing pose and I love how the winglets are flared up, just show how much airplane designers learn from birds. My only comment is to clone out the reddish OOF branch right on the left edge of the frame.
