Coming in to Land

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

I made this image in Bosque Del Apache NM, Crane Ponds outside the refuge.


Nikon D500, 500 f/4 + 1.4x TCIII
1/40 sec; f/5.6; ISO 2000
Manual; Matrix metering

Post Processing:-
Cropped in the top Left corner.
Removed wing of another goose in the Lower left
Reduced color casts
Noise Reduction
C1p, PS6, Neat Image


Let me know your thoughts and comments.

Thanks
Krishna

[Alex Becker]

Hi Krishna, you've been doing well with the blurs and nice to see you experimenting. I like this one, although I do like the group setting a bit more. Good sense of motion and colors. I think I would clone or smooth over the OOF bird (?) under the goose. TFS

[gail bisson]

Hi Krishna,
I like the image design. I wish the head was a bit sharper.
I guess I struggle with how much blur is too much blur!:tinysmile_shy_t:
Gail

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

Here is are post cloning out the out of focus snow goose.

[John Mack]

I liked your blurs with the bigger flocks better than the single bird blurs. The background color is very nice here.

[Arthur Morris]

I like that this one is relatively sharp on the head but am confused by the image design with the bird on the left. The degree of blurring is pleasing.

with love, artie

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

Hi Artie,

Thanks for the comment.

I saw two birds coming in for landing facing me. I wanted to photograph both of them in the frame, unfortunately both split and landed some way apart. I continued to track the bird on the left. The reason for the same is that I had Group AF left to the center point. This is my default setting which I programmed by the click of a button.

So with the above, I tracked the bird on the left and made this image.

In post processing the Bird on the right was clipped and hence I cropped/Cloned it out.

Let me know if you feel this composition is not good and How I could have improved the same.

Thanks
Krishna

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks Krishna. I'd consider a square or boy crop ...

with love, artie