Help in the lower right corner of this image (Page 2): If that is what the SOOC image looks like, it is weird! It looks like a reflection of the surface of the water on something in...

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

WDCash wrote:

I shot this heron a few weeks ago as we were heade... (show quote)

If that is what the SOOC image looks like, it is weird! It looks like a reflection of the surface of the water on something in front of the lens.

Stan

fergmark Loc: norwalk connecticut

WDCash wrote:

What do you mean "it's the boat"? Are you suggesting the line itself is part of the boat? Please download and look closely it is the water in big creek. The water itself isn't my question. I'm trying to figure why its such a straight unnatural line.
Thanks for the thought.

I know from shooting from a traveling vehicle that keeping the frame of the window or the rear view window is not all that easy. Many times I have seen just a part of the window frame in the photo and wondered what the heck is that. The only possible answer was that it was part of the window frame.

Bultaco Loc: Aiken, SC

Were you using any camera support?

yorkiebyte Loc: Scottsdale, AZ/Bandon by the Sea, OR

...I'd worry more about the subject bird being out of focus/blurred and the distracting background/buildings than the lower corner that could be cropped/cloned out!
....but that's just my own opinion......

relbugman Loc: MD/FL/CA/SC

Look closely at a blow-up. There is water around and to the right of the near leg (foot under the water). It has entirely different characteristics than the water in front, including the straight edge that could not be. The 'reflections' in the stream are not in line with the stems and leg, or offset to the right. The reflections of the slanted grass to the left of the leg are not in line and are not slanted. Ditto to the far right. And the stems just to the right of the leg are near horizontal while the reflections are vertical, and reflections of the dark stems are missing. The water in front is not from the same image! or at least shifted sideways from elsewhere. The line is an artifact of pasting. In short, none of the reflections line up. Things are not what you say!

SalvageDiver Loc: Huntington Beach CA

WDCash wrote:

What do you mean "it's the boat"? Are you suggesting the line itself is part of the boat? Please download and look closely it is the water in big creek. The water itself isn't my question. I'm trying to figure why its such a straight unnatural line.
Thanks for the thought.

Two things tell me its not the water. 1) The straight line showing no water wrappings around the reeds along the bank. 2) The reflections don't match the image right above it. This reflection is coming from an elevated position. In fact, the reflection isn't even representative of the bank, its showing blue sky where there should be reeds on the bank.

I'm inclined to agree with fergmark. It appears to be a reflection off a smooth reflective surface like a shiny fiberglass deck.

bluezzzzz Loc: Stamping Ground, KY

WDCash wrote:

OK so here is the image as shot. About as SOC as I can manage. Shot RAW so I have done with this vr is convert it from RAW to JPG

The boat was moving, slowly left to right vs the bank. Hand held. 1/1250 sec and iso400

WDCash, you've taken an interesting and very puzzling shot of this heron!

I keep coming back to look at this again and again in an attempt to figure it out...

I believe that you have caught a freaky-timed photo of the wake of the boat you were in, catching the edge of the wake just as it rolls over into the shoreline grass.

Marshall

wjv

The picture looks like there was a wave from your boat that created the straight line of the wave crest. If you look at water around the heron's feet it is at a lower level.

RayF Loc: New Jersey

I think you are being a bit hard on yourself.

John from gpwmi Loc: Michigan

Wake from the boat? You could carefully clone some grass to cover it, because it doesn't seem you can make the water look natural.