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Taken Tuesday at the Venice Rookery. The male was making regular forays for nesting material, and this image was one of the better ones.
Canon 7D, ISO 800; AV mode, evaluative metering; 0 EV EC.; EF 70-200 mm f/4L IS + EF 1.4X TC @ 280 mm; 1/1600 sec. @ f/6.3. HH. PP in LR 4.3...darkened the BG reeds a little. Almost full frame, cropped a little off the left and bottom for composition.
Looking forward to your thoughts and critiques. Thanks!
Great in flight capture and the nesting material is a nice bonus. I am thinking the grasses in the BG could be toned down a bit more. Either way congrats on a nice capture.
Nicely timed Dennis and sharp details as well, lovely wing form, that's quite a branch he's carrying, I'd be inclined to run a bit of noise reduction on the background just to smooth out some of the graininess in the reeds
Lovely pose but the BG is too distracting for my taste and the bird's head doesn't look sharp to me. Love the nesting material.
Hi,
The bird and the branch look good to me, and the angle of the bird slightly in your direction is good. But I also find the bg a bit powerful and distracting. ? selectively blur it a bit.
Richard
I'm sorry, but I'm not going to get distracted into that philosophy again...blurring the BG. I've tried that, even bought a plug-in which promised to do that effortlessly.... and it just didn't work. It (the BG) is what it is...that is what was there. I can't do anything about the blurry head either. I'll just delete it. Thanks everyone.
Dennis I think you have a fine capture there, I have a couple of thoughts:
Suggest run NR over all the image say DeNoise on Medium then run some more at a slightly higher setting on the background.
Apply a little more sharpening I find Philip Perold techniques so convenient, I have modified several different versions for 600, 800, 1024 and 1400px sizes.
