Blue Heron In flight

[Candida Tate]

Great Blue Heron by Candida Tate on Light Stalking

[Rob Wood (Admin)]

@candida-tate I would play with this in Lightroom a little – first things I would look at is making the bird stand out against the background a little more (probably by darkening the reflections and/or dodging the bird)

[Sylvain]

Very lovely picture. My suggestions would be to crop out the out of focus greenery in the front to the first log. I would also crop some of the space on the left to bring my heron more to a third of rule corner. I would daren and desaturate background and increase the light on the heron.

It is for you to see if you have enough res and sharpness to crop closer.

Good luck.

[Tobie]

I’d also crop it closer but I have an idea you’re going to loose too much image quality. I have a suspicion that this would look way better in a larger (screen) size. How about uploading it to flickr?

[Candida Tate]

I have it on Flickr, there is the link. Thank you for the suggestions, I agree with cropping and making the bird stand out more. @yumarena, I am unfamiliar with daren? My purpose for joining this forum is to develop my skills so all input is appreciated and welcome.

[Sylvain]

By daren, I meant darken.

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