Egret w/ reflection

Very nice one, Chas!
And the total reflection of the bird gives an artistic feel to it. Thanks for your exposure tips. Still I find the white at the top part is on the borderline!

Super cool - love the symmetry and curves here!

It's as if it's on a mirror, Chas. Fantastic image(s) !!

This is one of the nicest Great Egret shots I have seen. I love the symmetry of the reflection and the serenity of this image.

Beautiful, Chas. Symmetry is indeed the key to the success of this image.

Chas,

Perfect reflection and exposure. Nice going.

Chas, This is awesome.

Beautiful shot Chas.

darn!! This is sweet!!!!

Chas:

This is a wonderful work and I can't praise it enough.

I am very interested in your +1.3 EV -- I would have done just the opposite, that is, about -1 EV. Why did you overexpose? For years I have fought with whites, and have always underexposed in order to preserve the details.

You have me baffled.

Any comments you could make would be very helpful to me, thanks,

My-O-My!
Great shot.
Chip

Chas
This is so perfect you could almost turn it upside down and not know it. The symmetry is fantastic.....just excellent.

Pure art! Flawless.

aj

Bill Lockhart wrote:Chas:

This is a wonderful work and I can't praise it enough.

I am very interested in your +1.3 EV -- I would have done just the opposite, that is, about -1 EV. Why did you overexpose? For years I have fought with whites, and have always underexposed in order to preserve the details.

You have me baffled.

Any comments you could make would be very helpful to me, thanks,

Bill, reflected in-camera metering will always try to render the area metered as a midtone. Metering the white highlight area as I have done via spot would render it gray. In order to make it white with detail you need to add more light to the exposure.

If you metered and nulled the exposure for a white, gray, and blk piece of paper in the same, light with center-weighted or spot method all would be rendered as gray. Only after applying compensation can the white and blk pieces be rendered as seen by eye. The reason I advocate using an incident meter when the subject is in the same light as the meter is that this method measures the quantity of light falling on the subject and not the amount reflected back. As the meter sets a precise midtone all things brighter and darker are rendered as such. Using the incident method with the example above-, the pieces of paper would be rendered more accurately. Evaluative adjusts the exposure via algorithms, and at times, it is difficult to second-guess and apply compensation accurately.

Best,

Chas

Too cool!

Chas, this is really nice work as I've come to expect from you. Since no one else has mentioned it and we don't want NSN to simply praise good images, I think I should mention that the image is not quite level and it would be improved by a very slight rotation and crop. That said, I only hope I can get one so nice some time.

An elegant image! Very beautiful.

Sweet, elegant, Darn, they have used all the descriptives I would want.
The metering tips are right on. I wondered why you did not do a +1 2/3 to 2 for white, but then I reoembered that most digitals over expose, so you compensated for the built in over exposure. It is hard for many to understand that meters try to make things 18% gray or colored equivalent.
Thanks for sharing, as usual your images stand out.

Hey Chas, Loverly, aritstic, painterly, technically perfect. At the risk of swimming against the tide, I would suggest that the head position could be better as the bird's head is turned a bit away from the film plane. In any case, if that spoils the image for you you can send me the master file via CD <smile> Best and see you in Bosque, Artie