Hello, New here but am excited to get some feed back on some of my photos and hopefully be able to contribute to others.
60D
ISO 400
@200mm (70-200)
F 8.0
1/1000th
Found a pond in town that was covered with Grebes, at first I thought these were Horned Grebes as I didn't know much about the species.
Some LR4 adjustments such as, selective dodging, sharpening,saturation,whites,shadows,blacks and clarity
Looks like you did a pretty good job with the exposure.
My recommendation would be to get the Grebes out of
the center. I'm thinking cropping off the bottom...maybe
just below the reflection of the second Grebe. Then after
that maybe a little off the top, it'll depend what the image
looks like after the bottom crop.
Welcome...sorry for the late reply but Doug made some great comments. There are three things that come to mind when I view this picture:
Crop...too much negative space on top and bottom...crop to enhance the beauty of the subject - the four are the story why let the eye roam?
Reach..consider a 1.4 or 2.0 TC to get closer and the more we crop the more we degrade the IQ
Subject is past you...try and capture them as the approach or level to the lens...
Thanks for posting and just curious...have you ever read "The Art of Bird Photography" or "Digital Basic"? These are reference material I use all the time and will help develop good exposure, field and post processing techniques. Please keep em coming..talk soon I hope.
I tried cropping it so the birds were on the bottom which looks great, but if i crop out some of the top it really degrades the IQ. I guess thats the downfall of only having the 70-200 at the moment. I am looking for a used 400mm 5.6 and TC.
Moving a few more feet to the side would have been possible and would have allowed me to capture them approaching the camera, I will keep that in mind next time.
I have not read either of those books but will look in to them, I'll admit I have a lot of pictures that suffer due to my post processing techniques.
Eared Grebe
