Great Egret Takes Flight
Just hope to get a few honest seconds, here.
Thanks

Yet another nice capture.....you gave frame space for the bird to fly into....good exposure that didnt blow out the pure white feathers against the background. Can stand to have a touch of PP to brighten up the rest of the shot you downplayed to get the feathers exposed correctly and remove the slight yellow color cast. (need to be a tad bluer)

Roman

Hey Durwood,

Great shot. I like it a lot - you really nailed the composition pretty perfectly. I agree with Roman that it needs to be brightened up a bit and that the colors seem a little sallow...though I think that the fix is not difficult.

Thanks for sharing - well done.

James

Hey any of you guys have my permission to show me your take on this. If you want to start with a higher rez shot, let me know.

D

Hey Durwood,

Please put up the link to the file. Is it a raw or a jpeg?

James

the image is here:
It is a low rez web image.
http://www.joelton.org/images/birds/EgretGreat_4682.jpg

Thanks, Durwood. I started playing with the image this mornign. Isolating the background is easy - and I have done a good job kicking that up. The trick has been holding those highlights that you were so delicatedly able to keep in the original. I will post something in the next 24 hours or so.

James

OK,

Here is my attempt to work the file. I just brightened it a bit and changed the color saturation a tad. I isolated the bird (which was the hardest part) and could have pushed the background colors significantly further, but chose to leave it here. The image still seems a tad bit yellow to me.

How did I do?

James

I think it is a large improvement!

Here is my version which includes some color correction (I also applied a child's portion of cooling filter to the BG) and additional saturation to the BG.