FebFest my neighborhood - next installment

[Drlangfo]

This weeks FebFest installment. In all honesty this is a little outside the 1.5 mi radius of "my neighborhood" but I came across this wonderful heron during last Sunday morning's walk on the greenway. Taken with Canon Powershot SX50. Both images were pp sharpened, contrast, saturated and cropped. I may have over sharpened image 2. Shooting info f5.6, iso 400, 1/1000s, focal length 128.8, handheld. Comments welcome.

[muffitt]

Hi David,

These are nice photos. You really captured some excellent light on the heron and the reflections are special too.

How nice to have such a handsome bird in your 'hood!

Tim

[jeeperman]

David, nice images. I like to shoot an occasional Heron myself. I think the bird in these are slightly over exposed, either in camera or PP. They may be recoverable with a little more work in PP. I also think some cropping could help. In the first I would bring the top down to somewhere in the main diagonal log. In the second I would take some of the top and the left side.

[Drlangfo]

Thanks for the comments. The bird was overexposed in my photo so helpful knowing its not quite right yet. When I looked at different ways to crop was trying to avoid getting the bird to centered in the photo. I'll play with it more.