As I was laying flat on the sand with my panning plate setup capturing images of 3-5″ shorebirds, I saw this beautiful ,Egretta caerulea, fly in the bay and it began to stalk the small fish just offshore. I had to scramble a bit, reset my exposure for the strong backlight and waited for the peak of action, then took my shot. Even at 1/500 sec, I wasn’t able to nail the sharpness I wanted, for ’the claw” is a bit soft.
While putting this Image up in the DD, I noticed that the background was almost Neutral grey and the bird has some wonderful hues of whites, that I thought of making this Image up in B&W. I then spent some time making my adjustments for one for color and one for B&W.
Then Prior to posting this Blog, I reviewed yesterdays ‘FritzImages Intelligence’ for comments and noticed that Prez had throw down the gauntlet to me to train up on the Holga 120N camera… As it so happens Nik Silver Effects pro, has the Holga as B&W pre-set, so I am posting my first Holga….. without having to fork over the $27.
