Project/ Backlit, Juvenile Snail Kite

[Layton E Parham]

Juvenile Snail Kite landing at Viera Wetlands. Canon 1D Mark IV, Eos 500F4L is, @F4, Iso 1600, 1/1600 sec, Manual Mode, +1 2/3 stop, 50% crop, from landscape to portrait.

[Randy Stout]

Layton:

Good timing on your landing shot, love the feet.

I might be tempted to push this all the way to a silhouette, remove the snag running off to the left, move the trunk more to the left in the frame, crop down from the top. Lots of options here.

Cheers

Randy

[Doug Brown]

Like the outstretched talons and the interesting perch. Randy makes some excellent suggestions regarding composition and pushing the darks even further to the left.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Agree with Randy. Full silhouette will be better. My suggestion would be to pull the exposure down a stop and then play with curves to create the perfect blacks. Loved the pose and the comp.

[Layton E Parham]

Hope you like this.