Egret on the Bay
Snowy Egret posing for his portrait on a sunny San Francisco Bay morning
Snowy Egret posing for his portrait on a sunny San Francisco Bay morning
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krobertsphoto
March 16, 2016
Gorgeous! Superb job.
Welcome to ViewBug, by the way. I love your photo. ViewBug is a lot more fun when you interact with other photographers. Please feel free to stop by my gallery and take a look.
Welcome to ViewBug, by the way. I love your photo. ViewBug is a lot more fun when you interact with other photographers. Please feel free to stop by my gallery and take a look.
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Location
I took this walking on the bike path in Mill Valley, CA. The bike path connects Mill Valley with Sausalito - it used to be the train line that connected Mill Valley to the Sausalito ferry before the Golden Gate bridge was built. Always lots of activity on the path - bikes, walkers, runners - lots of shore birds.Time
I walk the bike path in the early morning - but not too early, so don't often catch sunrise except maybe in the dead of winter. This day the sun was up and already harsh, but the shot came out OK.Lighting
Lighting was afternoon full sun but I was lucky not to get too many shadows.Equipment
Nikon D7000, Nikon 28-300mm lens at 300mmInspiration
I was just out walking, looking for stuff to shoot, and he was posing for me - so pretty.Editing
I always post-process my shots. At this time (several years ago) I was just using Lightroom - hadn't discovered Topaz or On1 or NIK, and didn't do much in Photoshop - but I had learned a tremendous amount from watching Serge Ramelli's Lightroom tutorials.In my camera bag
Well, I don't have a bag! I am now carrying a Sony A7s, and almost always have the 24 - 240MM zoom on it. If I'm shooting in my studio, I will switch to the 90mm macro, but I travel light!Feedback
I'm not a bird photographer, and I know to really get into it I'd need to get a 600mm lens and be a lot more patient with my shooting than I am now. That's just not me - so this was a lucky accident. Hope you like it.
