photoartflightLittle Egret Panorama
I was photographing along the Indigo Trail at the Ding Darling NWR early in the morning on this day. We finally had found a large number of birds along the trail. It was quite dark under the trees, but we managed to get a lot of images of a variety of Egrets and Herons while they were foraging for food. With this Egret, I liked it’s reflection in the water and it was just keeping an eye on me as I was photographing it. After shooting a few images of the Egret, I shot vertical images for a long panorama. I was traveling light on this walk so I only had the 400mm DO lens with a 1.4x teleconverter. It was quite dark under all the trees so I had to raise my ISO higher than I like. After assembling in Photoshop, I trimmed the left & right sides a little so the Egret would be more prominent in the long vertical image. Then removed some “noise” from using a higher ISO than normal.
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Love those yellow feet! Are those crabs, shellfish or barnacles on the mangrove?
Hi! They are probably barnacles. There are tree crabs that are in the mangrove trees and crabs on the shore Line.
I’m with Eliza, I love those bright yellow feet! Nice shot, Reed!
The yellow feet do stand out! They seem brighter when it is early morning and in the shade!