The Hunt Begins

A Grey Heron gets ready to hunt as the tide recedes in the Changi river. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

The sun was beating down relentlessly and so the exposure for this one had need to be biased 2 stops darker to keep the heron from being washed-out.

A Hungry Heron

A Grey Heron still looking at fishes in a lotus pond after having just swallowed a big one in the Japanese Garden. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

This was taken back in 2011. The sun was pretty harsh and the face and belly of the heron was originally in the shadows. They were separately brightened up a bit in post.

Blowing Bubbles

A Grey Heron roosting in a then existing colony in Pasir Ris Park. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

This was captured with a mirror lens in 2018 but I don’t remember which one now (I have a 400mm, a 500mm and a 600mm) and the image exif file doesn’t say anything as I might have used a dummy adapter. The image out of the camera was muted as expected of mirror lenses, lacking contrast and saturation that had need to be restored in post. The doughnut bokeh could’ve been smoothed out but was left alone in this instance as they somehow looked interesting here.