I know the other bird is a no-no but I liked the main character although centered. I am assuming that you generally should never include another subject like I have here. I am a Photoshop Elements person with weak editing skills and just couldn't clone out the other bird with good success. I have to learn patience in perfecting my editing skills. Taken at Fort DeSoto in the evening.
20D - ISO 200 - 420 mm, (300 + tele-converter) - 1/500 - f:9
Actually Leon,
I like your main subject. You can crop on the right side of the frame to off set your bird and this will make it less work when you clone out the secound bird in the background; while your at it, you might want to add a little canvas on the left side of your frame...:cool:
Leon, I took the liberty of working onyour image. I hope you like it...:D I cloned out the secound bird in the background and I cropped 1/4 from the right side of you frame and cropped just a tad from the bottom of the frame. I gave you a notch of contrast and increased your hue just a wee bit, not too much. I finished it up by giving the bird just a slight touch of sharpening...:D:D:D
Leon it is fine having a second bird in frame. What we like to do is having the bg bird in a similar position. Sort of an oof mirror image !! Will try posting one later tonight so you can see. In the case of your bird would have rather had more space. Would like seeing the other bird entirely.
In the re post by Gus would also like more room. Bird feels tight in frame. Normally we want the bird to be around 75% of the frame. I know when we buy a long tele lens we tend to get tight. The norm is to go too tight !!!
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