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Great Egret fishing
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Great Egret fishing

by Peter J. Morrissey

Gallery: AvianPosted May 9, 201486 views3 comments
After spending the winter off my feet with a broken heal I am finally walking well enough to followed this Great Egret around Hammonasset Beach State Park,CT on a cold rainy Spring day to get this shot.

In Lightroom 5 I increased the exposure one stop and cropped cropped the the shot vertically.

Camera Model Canon EOS 7D
Firmware Firmware Version 2.0.3
Shooting Date/Time 05/08/14 09:49:01
Owner's Name
Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE
Tv(Shutter Speed) 1/800
Av(Aperture Value) 6.3
Metering Mode Evaluative Metering
Exposure Compensation 0
ISO Speed 800
Auto ISO Speed OFF
Lens EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
Focal Length 400.0mm

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Comments

3 comments
Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on May 10, 2014 at 12:20 AM
A very nice landing shot with a good BG, but almost no detail in the whites and blacks on the bird. Since this is probably about a 50% crop, I think possibly expanding it a bit and dropping back from the one stop increase, at least on the whites, might pick up some more detail in the whites. These are tough birds to get detail out of! :smile:
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Comment posted by Steve Zimic on May 10, 2014 at 12:34 PM
The timing here is perfect with the dark legs against the light background and the white bird against the dark background. There does seem to be a lack of detail though in the bird. To me it looks like the focus was off just a hair. Perhaps a good candidate for Topaz Detail. Definitely worth the effort to work this image a bit more. I might also consider cropping about 15% off the top of the image.
Registered on November 23, 2003, 176 Posts, 727 Comments
Comment posted by Peter J. Morrissey on May 11, 2014 at 9:50 PM
Phil and Steve, I rechecked the photograph and your both right the focus is off a little and some of the detail was lost in luminance and color reduction. But I liked the action. Thank you for your comments.

Peter J. Morrissey
Registered on July 3, 2011, 188 Posts, 969 Comments