Young Swan Portrait

[Joe Senzatimore]

From todays outing at a local pond.

800 ISO f5.6 at 1/3200th

[Randy Stout]

Joe:

Lovely detail, fine water beading, like the head angle. Exposure fine.

Just a little tight on the side for me.

Cheers

Randy

[Doug Brown]

A bit more canvas on the left would help IMO. You've got great detail in the head, but sharpness falls off on the neck. I would have traded a bit of SS for enough DOF to get the neck sharp.

[Brendan Dozier]

Great looking swan, and nice portrait, Joe. Like the HA, detail and water beads are nice touch. Agree about adding some more on left and a bit more dof to get details of neck in.

[arash_hazeghi]

elegant portrait you did well

[denise ippolito]

Joe, I love Mute Swans, I know many don't. They make great subjects. This young one has a lot of appeal. Nice sharp head and eye. I agree w/ Doug's thoughts and I might remove the second catchlight. Exposure looks perfect and the water drops on the head are killer!:S3:

[Daniel Cadieux]

I'm normally fine with DOF when the eye is sharp, but in this case I agree stopping down was a good option with all the SS speed and distant BG you had. Still a very nice portrait, lots of good detail, perfect exposure, and very neat sprinkling of water drops.

[Dan Behm]

fine portrait image of this bird the water drops and vivid sharpness really make this nice, however I may also have opted for stopping down to increase overall dof based on the shutter speed you had. also perhaps adding room the the left of the frame would maybe strengthen this image as well along with removal of the catchlight.

Dan