cormorant

http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/5598/ed9f7621.jpg

canon 1D mark IV and 300 2.8 with 2X TC

600 mm 800 ISO f/5.6 1/4000 7MP crop


thanks for any suggestion

Paola:

NIce landing pose with wing spread, feet flared, good separation of head from wings.

The image looks very flat to me, and I think you can adjust the black point to really add some pop without blocking them.

In a perfect world, I would prefer the duck to not be there.

Cheers

Randy

Paolo, molto bello Cormorant...agree with above, image does look flat and if it were mine I'd remove the duck...Grazia

Sharp on the cormorant with a great landing pose. Does look flat and the black feathers are quite noisy. Did you have any more room above?

http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/9971/ed9f76212.jpg

this is a new composition

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/5287/ed9f76211.jpg

and this was the starting point

Paolo, The image in Pane #5 looks great, especially without the duck :) And the boost in contrast helped too.