Pied-Billed Grebe

[Daniel A. Romero]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielp...ream/lightbox/
ISO 1600
Aperture: f10
Shutter: 1/400s
Canon Eos Rebel XS
Tamron 80-210mm f4.5-5.6 at 210mm (Old lens)
Sharpening and cropping done in Aperture

All opinions are welcome!

[Kerry Perkins]

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[Daniel A. Romero]

Pied-Billed Grebe[IMG][/IMG]

Shot with Tamron 80-210mm f4.5-5.6 at 210mm (Old lens) and Canon Eos Rebel XS
f10
1/400s
ISO 1600

Cropped and sharpened in Aperture

All opinions are welcome!

[Daniel A. Romero]

[IMG][/IMG]

Thank you Kerry!

Here's the image.

Shot with an old Tamron 80-210mm f4.5-5.6 at 210mm

f10
1/400s
ISO 1600

Cropped and sharpened in Pixelmator

All opinions welcome!

[Ian Cassell]

Hi, Daniel. This is a nice sharp image of an elusive bird (they always seem to stay just out of lens range for me).

Here are some thoughts that I hope you think might be useful.

1) I think your image could use a little CW rotation -- it looks like he is going to spill out the left side of the image.
2.) The BG is quite overwhelming. If you shot at ~f/6.3 or so, you would have blurred out the background considerably and made your bird stand out a bit better.
3.) With that wider aperture, you would also probably have been able to get away with a lower ISO without dropping your shutter speed too far. That would reduce noise in your image.
4.) With the bird looking to the viewer's right like that, changing your crop to put the bird on the left side of the viewer's frame would draw the viewer's eye into the frame rather than encourage the viewer to look off to the right of the frame.
5.) Tightening the frame around the bird would also eliminate some of the distracting greenery. I don't think the reflection is adding much to the impact of the image and most of it could be eliminated.

Thanks for posting and keep them coming!

[Daniel A. Romero]

[IMG][/IMG]
Thank you Ian! How about this?

[Ian Cassell]

Daniel, I like that crop much better although I get the feeling he's a bit crowded on the viewer's left (maybe not so tight a crop would be good). In general, tightening up the frame and eliminating the reflection had brought the viewer's gaze to the bird where you want it. Good job! He's still tilted to the left, though, and one gets the feeling he's going to slide off :)

[Ian Cassell]

I did a little rough work to show you what I mean -- leveled the image and crudely added some real-estate on viewer's left (would probably have worked better with original file). The BG is still too busy, IMO, but I think this presentation works better.