theme female cardinal bath

[Gary Hamilton]

female cardinal bathing

Canon 1D MK III
Canon 300 2.8 + 1.4x TC
ISO 640
1/800 sec.
f/4.5
roughly 25% crop

[Clemens Vanderwerf]

Interesting capture Gary. For some reason your eye gets drawn to the big drops above the birds shoulders. Composition is not ideal with too much space behind and above the bird (especially with the many oof drops). The rock on the right side does not help with a pleasing bkgd either. A higher shutter speed would have reduced the oof drops a bit more here.

[wendell westfall]

I like the image and the exposure very much. I would only like a bit more canvas on the right.

[Gary Hamilton]

re-post with more canvass on the right side

object behind and to right of cardinal is a dead branch that the cardinal used to enter the water

[wendell westfall]

Gary, for me a big improvement. I like this image a lot!