A mothers Work is never done

[john crookes]

Photographed at Mount Auburn Cemetary in Cambridge MA

Nikon D3
400mm 2.8
2X Ext
F5.6
1/500th
ISO 800
Fill Flash
Monopod

[Harold Davis]

Too cute! feels a little crowded. might would add a little to the right. i do like the action!!!

[Maxis Gamez]

Hi John,

Very nice clean BG and behavior. Obviously the blue string is distracting but nothing much you can do about it. I think this image would work better in horizontal because there is a lot of dead space on top. You did well with the fill flash as you can barely tell you used it.

Did you get a picture in horizontal?

Thanks!

[DanWalters]

Great image. I like the interaction and the colors.

[Dave Phillips]

really nice John. Maybe some off top and left.....it is almost a perfect rule of thirds and looks great recropped(IMO)

[Alfred Forns]

I like it as presented John !!! Excellent head angle for all three. Bg looks fine and he image has a nice feel. Might suggest to back down in the sharpening just a little. I like it a lot !!!

[Arthur Morris]

I like the COMP but agree with Alfred about the over-sharpening... The edges of the bird and the tree looks cut out. Also, a wonderful job of capturing the peak of the action.

[john crookes]

repost with no sharpening added. Actually in the first post there was no PS sharpening but probally a bit too much in Lightroom so I went back and reduced to default which is minimal

Thx for all of the imput

Also I did not get a horizontall but may go back and do that as they are still a couple of days away from fledging

John

[Phil Seu]

great timing.

phil seu