Cormorants

[Jonathan Ashton]

Tripod, Canon 1DX Canon 500mm f4 & 1.4TC111 Auto ISO 250 +1.0EV, 1/800 sec f5.6
These were taken at the little town called Seahouses on the Northumberland coast.
All C&C welcome.

[gail bisson]

I like the trio and the spacing between them.
I would prefer this as a stronger pano crop.
I do wish the cormorants on the right and left were in focus.
Nice environment included. I would clone out the ppop below the central bird.
Nice to see something different!
Gail

[christopher galeski]

nice capture Jonathan,like the environment,I too wish the birds right and left were in focus,and agree on removing the bird lime off the rock.TFS.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Jon, I like this lots, and great seeing the outspread wings of the central Cormorant drying his wings. He is placed nicely between the other two, and Im fine they arent in perfect focus. I do like the colourful FG.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Thanks for the feedback everyone, I think the two out of focus cormorants help make or break the image depending on your viewpoint, the fact that they were not sharp and the central one was sharp seems for me to be a good idea. I think had they all been sharp the comments would have been that they are facing the wrong way

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Agree with Gail. That's the first thing I thought of, a tighter crop from above. The balance and symmetry are really well achieved with the three cormies. Really good image Jonathan.
TFS

[Jonathan Ashton]

Ok I do in fact have a different image with just the central one in the frame - will post later