I commented on the Teal in the Avian forum. Again great look to this image - soft light, the blue of the water, how the background transitions. Good head angle here on the grebes. I like the placement of one grebe inthe center and one to the left - provides tension to the image vs. say placing each the same distance for the frame left/right sides. The ripples always help to anchor images like this especially in pano. Nice work.
I guess you can see why I like skinny images. I had to spot a lot of debris out of the water on this one as well. I tried placing the eye of the LH Grebe on the third but just didn't like cutting the left edge that much. I do like that the ripples are centered but the birds aren't. It would have been boring with the birds centered.
Thanks again,
Fred
Fred,
Like Robert, I really like the presentation here. I actually wonder if toning down the redness of the eyes wouldn't hurt--they're like magnets for my attention, and it's hard to break away to look at the rest.
I appreciate that you've already done a lot of "debris spotting," but if you could do a little more, I think it would make for a dramatic image.
Fred,
I think this is a great improvement over the first post. The only thing I'd note is that you seem to have introduced a black spot on the left edge that wasn't in the first post. Otherwise, I think you're finished with this one. Well done!
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