Purple Gallinule Frax and Flood

[WIlliam Maroldo]

Sony A850~Sony 70-400G@400mm~ISO1600~1/800 sec~F5.6~manual exposure~HH~overcast~4-1-2011~Brazos Bend State Park, Texas~CS5/Redfield Fractalius/Flaming Pear "Flood"
My usual frac treatment, then used Flood for the reflection and extended the perch to the left with content-aware fill. Comments and critique welcomed. regards~Bill

[denise ippolito]

Bill, I really, really like this one. The high key effect and the added reflection are wonderful. My personal preference is to take a slice off the bottom so it seems less matchy(is that a word?)- but that is just my personal taste.:S3:

[Indranil Sircar]

Beautiful composition, Bill. I like how you extended the perch. Excellent reflection. Since you used flood, I wonder how it will look adding one or two ripple on the water.

[Brendan Dozier]

Very nice comp, Bill! Like the colors, and has a nice printed texture look to it. Well done, Sir.

[Steve Adkins]

Well done, Bill. Great frac treatment as always. Neat extended comp. :S3:

[WIlliam Maroldo]

Thanks for the feedback! Denise; it is my opinion that symmetrical images should be centered; centered verically if only top/bottom symmetry is present. As a matter of fact symmetry may be the one compositional case where centering is appropriate.
Indranil; I contemplated adding some distortion to the reflection as well. Certainly if my goal was realism I would have, but since it wasn't I decided against it. The same holds true to the left hand perch extension which is a repeated pattern. Not very realistic as well. Thanks guys! Bill

[Andrew McLachlan]

Hi Bill, a little late, but I love this one. Very nice work!

[Christopher Miller]

Mirror, mirror...:S3: Love the colors and symmetry, Bill. Very well done!