Snowy Egret with small catch

[Kurt Bowman]

• SONY ILCE-9M2
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter
• ƒ/9
• 840mm
• 1/6400s
• ISO 800
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• Fri, 09 October 2020 7:43 AM
• kurt bowman
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 12.0.1 (Macintosh)

I haven't been out much lately. I am really missing shooting, but finances have just been very tight lately. Here's one in my files taken with my A92. All the dots in the water are air bubbles from a pump in the lake. They bubbles seem to attract the minnows and the Snowies fly by and grab them at the surface while in flight.

Sony A9M2
200-600mm
1.4 TC
taken at 840mm
1/6400 at f/9
ISO 800

 

[Dorian Anderson]

Lovely lighting and action. Fish is a nice touch. The bird's face does look a bit crunchy, perhaps from oversharpening? You're PP is usually spot-on, so it's a pretty small critique. Detail on the near wing/primaries is great. Softly-graded BG nice too.

 

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Kurt ... very nice incoming shot with the caught fish as a great addition and telling a story .
I do like the overall color palette / tones and colors ... the water and BG is lovely with the almost bi coloration . I do like the bubbles on the surface .
Basic sharpness does look good to me ... but i have some reservation about the smoothing that took place across the bird , albeit not globally rather partially . Some areas show complete smooth party other areas showing grain .... looks like a " typical Topaz sign " , well at least to me.
Looking at the techs i am surprised that you used any form of NR at all .

TFS Andreas

 

[Ian McLachlan]

I have never seen this bird but I can see light grey then snowy then light grey again from wing to wing As said above good action, bubbles add to it I reckon.