Lady In Waiting

[Bill McCrystyn]

20D 100-400L IS ISO400 @EFL600 F/8 1/1000 PARTIAL HANDHELD LAKE HAMILTON AR

Perched on a branch next to her mate off my deck I couldn't resist the late afternoon lighting.

[Stephen Stephen]

Bill like the pose here but would suggest that you really needed some fill flash. Did you happen to take a portrait version of this to capture the bird's tail as well? Next time try to move the bird off of centre so that it "looks" into the frame.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

The pose is nice but I agree with Stephen on fill flash and clipped tail. It looks quite underexposed.

[Bill McCrystyn]

Thanks guys, I can appreciate what your saying. The lighting, exposure and shadows were intentional but didn't come off well in the transfer. I probably should have put this in the "artsie" part of the out of the box forum. Thanks for your comments. I appreciate them.

[Fabs Forns]

I see it made it here :)

I'd probably crop the lighter tree and use some creative filter on it too :)

[Bill McCrystyn]

I think probably half my images belong here. What lighter tree?? By the way, that sharpening trick with the contracted radius is working real well on several of my images. Like I told Artie, there is a steep learning curve here and I like it. Having access to so many consumate pros like yourself to answer questions and help out is truly amazing. No where else can you get this all for $20 a year. Thanks again.

[Fabs Forns]

Thanks for your kind words :)

I played with it a bit. Used Alien Skin Snap Art's oil Piant, masking the eye. Nik Color Efex Bicolor Fiter and Feivel's Gothic Glow action.

[Bill McCrystyn]

Did you mean the right corner branch should be gone? Good call. Much better. Much cleaner to the eye.

Wow - the oil look is interesting. My son would probably like that one. Is that one of the CS3 filters? I would like to play with the oil myself. I might have toned it down (brightness) here and there but it's growing on me. I see possibilities. If you were to print that on canvas that could be trippy.

[Bill McCrystyn]

You can see I had to do something with it. :) The little lady caught my eye.

[Fabs Forns]

I need your e-mail to send you something, please PM me :)