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Gayle Clement
05-12-2008, 08:52 AM
There were almost a dozen rails around a small pond at Bolivar Flats. Some even lingered in the road! I waited for one to get into a fairly uncluttered area of the pond.
Small amount of water croppd below and behind the bird.
Bolivar Flats, Texas
Nikon D2Xs
Nikkor 500mm f/4
Nikkor 1.4 TC-EII
1/500s @ f/5.6
ISO 100
-0.7 EV
Alfred Forns
05-12-2008, 09:04 AM
Lovely bird Gayle !!! Sure would like to see him with an all blue water bg !!!
I know you are trying to minimize the bg but framing wise would like some taken from the bottom reflection and seeing more room up top. I like the pose very much and feather reproduction !!!! Also like the water swirl around the foot !!! Excellent !!!!
Daniel Cadieux
05-12-2008, 11:28 AM
I agree with Al composition-wise. Also, the eye looks soft...perhaps from subject movement. Don't be scared to use higher ISOs to give yourself more shutter speed...I don't remember the last time I used ISO100 for moving birds ;-)
Must have been quite a sight seeing all those rails at one time!
Freddy Franzella
05-12-2008, 11:41 AM
Really nice Gayle! I like to see a little more room.
Geurt Bloem
05-12-2008, 12:07 PM
A handsome subject with some nice light quality here. Ditto issues on slightly higher SS to stop movement as seen in the head/eye area.
Kobus Tollig
05-12-2008, 02:00 PM
Ditto Higher IS. Also body looks a tad oversharpened. Still good effort well done
Phil Seu
05-12-2008, 08:47 PM
nice light and colors. some motion blurring of head
phil seu
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