Snowgeese Sunrise

[Rodney Flowers]

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/%7Eflowersr/Critiques/June2011/20101206_Bosque_MG_5448-Edit.jpg
I took this one last December at Bosque.
Canon EOS 7D
Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
ISO 800 170mm f/5.6 1/250sec
All comments are welcome.

[Robert Amoruso]

Rodney,

You can always count on NM and Bosque for great skies. Good to see a different type of image from there. I like the clean edge of the lower border but find the group at the top a bit too close. It you are OK with cloning I suggest removing the two birds closest the top edge.

I like the transition of color and luminance from top to bottom of the image. Well seen and executed image.

[Arthur Morris]

Good advise from Robert. A bit lighter might work well. I like the small swirly clouds in the sky. With images like this I will often clean up the frame-edge birds.

[Kerry Perkins]

Hi Rodney, lovely Bosque sky and classic flight of snow geese in the dawn. Love the colors and clouds and agree that the left and right margins could be cleaned up a bit. For my eye, I would even crop from the top down to the two birds in the right half of the frame. I think the pano crop would work well and help balance the composition. Nicely done.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Rodney, some terrific advice above. nice colors indeed. Do I see one crane in there?

I also think that making it a bit brighter will make it much better. See if you can push the exp. without introducing a lot of noise.

[denise ippolito]

Rodney, Beautiful sky sunrise colors and layers. I like the way you framed this and agree that a liitle edge clean up would be good.:S3:

[Rodney Flowers]

Thanks for all of the comments. I finally had some time to work on a repost. I cleaned up the edges and lightened it a little. I had to reprocess it to keep from getting too much noise while making a lighter.