Mute Swan

[Willem Verboom]

A picture that I toke earlier this year. It was a sunny day somewere in the summer.

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x15/vmotion/sized_Zwaan17A.jpg
exif Canon EOS-1D Mark III
1/3200"
F8
Aperture priority
spot metering
-1 ev
iso 200
300mm


Enjoy the picture and thanks for viewing

Willem Verboom

[Randy Stout]

Willem:

Nicely exposed, sharp, good head angle for this look back pose. Like the feather detail, wish the wings were a bit wider spread so less merge. I would consider a bit more room at top because of the angle and position of the head. Flying drops a plus.

Please be sure to post your tech details, camera, lens, settings, post processing info.

Thanks

Randy

[Fabs Forns]

Beautiful light falling on the bird, whose elegance is evident in this pose. Great whites, it could also have gone as a vertical.

[Joe Senzatimore]

Great exposure and stop action. Nice pose captured.

[Harshad Barve]

lovely pose and great control over whites here
TFS

[Danny J Brown]

Hi Willem: Nice job of freezing all of those feathers flying ever which way. As above, great job of light and color control and the water droplets are a plus. Nice photo.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Interesting pose, great job with the exposure. You were lucky to get such a good HA with the body turned away during a wing flap! I agree with more room above and/or vertical crop. The image also looks like it needs a bit of CW rotation.

[Willem Verboom]

Thanks folks fot your reactions :)

@Daniel what do you mean by cw rotation....I'm not familiar white that.

Willem

[Daniel Cadieux]

Hi William,

It means Clockwise rotation. I'm finding the image slightly tilted down from right to left. Here is a link to some of the more common abbreviations that you can come across here:

http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=12681

and here is a very easy fix on how to perform that "CW rotation" :-)

http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=6268

P.S. A belated welcome to BPN!!

[Willem Verboom]

Thanks for that explanation Daniel. The most common thinks to do in cs4 I no that all (I think) ( I hope)
but some specalist thinks I want to learn. For instants beter sharpening and more of that kind of thinks.

I conseder too buy the cd for singing bird here on the forum. To learn even beter too shoot that darn birds :) Very often it is very difficult too shoot the fast small birds.

Willem