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Marcus Vorwaller's picture

Great Blue Heron

A Great Blue Heron stretching its wings after landing on a small jetty.

SONY ILCE-9
840mm · f/5.6 · 1/800s · ISO 3200
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What a beautifully done image! I am very interested in knowing about the background. Was the background in the real life scene really that clean and completely free of distractions and detail, or did you use Photoshop or other editing software to make it so perfectly clean?

My guess is telephoto > crop in > photoshop to clean any remaining distractions.

Edit: Read the image description. Note to self: no shit sherlock.

Hey Tom, thanks! The background was very distant and blurred out natually by the lens. The image was only manipulated in Lightroom and Topaz Denoise. No healing/cloning etc. The image was shot at 24mp and cropped to 3987 x 2658.

Great image!

Wow! this is very very cool!

I think it would be much better if you cropped it much tighter. Overall great photograph

What a banger! Great shot 🔥

One of the nicest Great Blue Heron photos that I've seen.. Bravo!!!