GreatEgret1

Gallery: AvianPosted July 3, 201180 views4 comments

This Great Egret had just finished and was heading home for the night. The photograph as taken at Hammonasset Beach State Part, CT. I am new to Nature Photographer and looking from comments.

Camera Model Canon EOS 7D
Shooting Date/Time 05/06/11 18:51:26
Owner's Name
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/1000
Av( Aperture Value ) 11
ISO Speed 640
Image Size 5184x3456
Flash Off
Filter effect N :None
Toning effect N :None
Color Space sRGB IEC61966-2.1
File Size 8351KB

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Ray Whitt on July 3, 2011 at 6:13 PM

Nice shot, I like the point of view and the rock and waves. Nice wing position on the egret and the whites are handled well. Would be helpful is you post the equipment and settings. You can also post a larger version. Nice work.

Ray

Registered on May 27, 2011, 92 Posts, 2619 Comments

Comment posted by Ron Dudley on July 3, 2011 at 8:39 PM

A perspective on the take-off that I like and you got a nice head turn to go with it Peter. I think your composition works well and I like the mood provided by the dark water. The head seems a little soft but hard to judge effectively at this small size. If you'd provide your techs, critique could be much more effective.

Registered on March 30, 2007, 437 Posts, 10915 Comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on July 3, 2011 at 9:52 PM

I like the composition and the unusual angle of looking down on the Egret in flight, Peter. The exposure looks good. It's difficult to judge sharpness of such a large bird in the 720 pixel image, but it looks reasonable. It helps with critiques if you post your shooting parameters (camera, lens, f-stop, iso, shutter speed, and any processing information that might affect image quality-particularly crop size) so people can make more intelligent comments.

Welcome to the forum. You'll enjoy it, I'm sure.

Registered on January 28, 2008, 1767 Posts, 23192 Comments

Comment posted by Nate Chappell on July 5, 2011 at 12:04 PM

Welcome Peter, I like the composition with the birds wings at a diagonal and your exposure looks good. You didn't list what lens and/or teleconverter you used but one thought would be you may not have needed that much depth of field (F11) and by going down to say F8 or F9 that would have gotten you more shutter speed which is helpful for sharpness. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work.

Registered on February 1, 2006, 1158 Posts, 19528 Comments