The Landing

[Ian Cassell]

From my cold trip to The Bosque in early January.

Canon 7D
Canon 400/5.6

1/2500 f/7.1 ISO 400 HH

Viveza 2
CS6 - crop for composition and sharpening
NR on BG in Noiseware Pro

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[Jeff Cashdollar]

Man,..I gota get to Bosque,..what a great moment with nature,..just lovely. The feather detail is great. The opportunity is the top and bottom edges. Consider smoothing the sticks and cloning a cleaner bottom edge and removing a small layer. I would crop the brown strip at the top too, but that's me - lets see what others say. Nice post, do have more from the trip?

The exposure techs are solid too, great kit for flight.

[Ian Cassell]

Thanks, Jeff. I found the top too 'bland' when I cropped out the top shore. I see what you mean about the bottom. Although I like the habitat, perhaps evicting a few twigs from the bottom might improve things. I'll go back and try that.

Yes, you MUST get to Bosque. I wouldn't recommend early January when I took this (it's too cold), but November 2011 was absolutely amazing.

[Jeff Cashdollar]

Ian,

Do Not let me talk you out of habitat,..you are the photographer and that is what you saw. It looks real good ether way, just offering suggestions my friend!!

Yes, November - I will be there this year!

[Ian Cassell]

It looks like I will be there the week of Dec. 9. November wasn't available in our vacation schedule at work.

[Loi Nguyen]

Lovely pose, great details, great light. I'm with Jeff in that I find the top strip a bit distracting, perhaps darken it a little more would help.

[Ian Cassell]

Thanks, Loi. Here is an edit without the top border (used Content Aware Fill in CS6 to give myself some real-estate on top). Thoughts?