cormorant

[Paolo Piazza]

http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/5598/ed9f7621.jpg

canon 1D mark IV and 300 2.8 with 2X TC

600 mm 800 ISO f/5.6 1/4000 7MP crop


thanks for any suggestion

[Randy Stout]

Paola:

NIce landing pose with wing spread, feet flared, good separation of head from wings.

The image looks very flat to me, and I think you can adjust the black point to really add some pop without blocking them.

In a perfect world, I would prefer the duck to not be there.

Cheers

Randy

[Paul Lagasi]

Paolo, molto bello Cormorant...agree with above, image does look flat and if it were mine I'd remove the duck...Grazia

[Arthur Morris]

Sharp on the cormorant with a great landing pose. Does look flat and the black feathers are quite noisy. Did you have any more room above?

[Paolo Piazza]

http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/9971/ed9f76212.jpg

this is a new composition

[Paolo Piazza]

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/5287/ed9f76211.jpg

and this was the starting point

[Arthur Morris]

Paolo, The image in Pane #5 looks great, especially without the duck :) And the boost in contrast helped too.