We don't have much snow in Florida but we have lots of Snowy Egrets. N70, sigma 400, Gold 100, scan from 4x6 print

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), December 22, 1998

Answers

Don't you think the bird is a tad over-exposed? There is no detail on it's back.

-- Bhaskar Thiagarajan (bhaskart@hotmail.com), December 22, 1998.

i agree, that the bird is overexposed. How did you meter it?

-- richard mittleman (gon2foto@gte.net), December 22, 1998.

I'll bet the original has the detail and is not overexposed. You cannot expect too much from a scan directly from a print as opposed to the original film (slide or neg). Personally I feel the image is a little too cramped. I would like to see a little of the birds surroundings. I would include a little more to the right to balance out the bird staring into that space. My eye wanders right and straight out of the frame.

-- Darren Barnes (dazzyb@hotmail.com), December 22, 1998.

I agree the picture seems a little "cramped." The posture of the bird and the top of the frame make it appear that the egret is ducking to fit into the frame. A little more space to the right of the frame could help, too.

-- Kirk Nelson (nelsonkk@gte.net), January 08, 1999.