Great Blue Heron

[coastalconn]

A few shots of one of my favorite birds.

1

GBH Portrait - 1 by krisinct, on Flickr
2

GBH Portrait - 2 by krisinct, on Flickr


3

GBH Hiding by krisinct, on Flickr
4 - This is why you should shoot in raw - learn from my mistake!

GBH in flight slow shutter by krisinct, on Flickr

I posted the last shot as an example as why you should shoot in raw. Sometimes I forget to check my settings. I was shooting a cormorant before this and cranked my EC to +1.7 trying to get some feather detail. Of course I forgot to turn it back. I had enough light that this shot should have been at 1/500th sec. Because of my error it was only at 1/160th. It is not as sharp as I would normally post. I ended up with a panning effect. Because I shot it in raw I could dial back my exposure and still get an ok image...

 

[WesternGuy]

Nice shots - really like the last one with the panning to get the BIF.

WesternGuy

 

[JoshuaSimPhotography]

Panning is awesome! Well done!

 

[coastalconn]

Thanks Fine, Western and Josh!

 

[sam7771]

Raw is the whole exposure like no camera editing done am i right?

you fail before sucsess

 

[coastalconn]

Raw is basically a digital negative. Jpeg is the interpretation. That is a very simple summary. It leaves more room in processing to adjust white balance, recover highlights and shadows...

 

[Animaniac888]

I really love the last one and the second one. Where did you take these shots?

 

[coastalconn]

I mostly shoot on or near the beaches of old saybrook. Thanks for all the great comments everyone