Here is another of my least tern images from this season. I love the family setting, newly hatched chick, unhatched egg, both adults, the minnow and the clean beach and background, but I'm not sure that I choose a good crop. I'd love some opinions on what you might have done.
In the original image, the tail tips of both adults were cut off. The adults stayed right at the edge of the frame and I have no other images with tail tips that I could use to "fix" the tails. Also, the adult on the right was too far, in my opinion, from the nest, so I moved him closer to the nest and reduced the dead space. I still had the problem of missing both tail tips, so I elected to crop the image closer to the base of both tails, hoping to balance the composition. This brought the chick and egg in closer and eliminated the dead space at the bottom of the image.
Canon 50D
500mm + 1.4TC
f11
1/1000
ISO 400
All comments appreciated and thanks in advance


