Canon 7d II, canon 400mm f/5.6 lens, hand held, f/5.6, ISO 400, 1/1600 sec
Lightroom: Highlights -100, Shadows 0, Whites +26, Blacks 15, clarity +30, vibrance +30, saturation +15, Luminance in NR 21, and I straightened out the horizon just a tad.
Very very nice! Love the color and the mood. My eyes tell me maybe a tad little more CCW rotation? But that might just be my cock eyed eyes. :) And I think I would crop more from the bottom, just below where the sun is reflecting, about a quarter of the way in from the left. Or maybe try just letting the tops of the grass show.
Wow! Love it! As Warren has said, "the depth". The light under the sun, through the trees is gorgeous. The image has left me wanting more...in any direction. Jack, I can almost smell the musty water and reeds. I can't see the rotation Craig has mentioned. As far as the crop he has mentioned... I might consider toning down the brighter golden reflections on the bottom LHC.
No other nits. Beautiful. Thank you for sharing this!
Awesome feel to this image, really nicely seen and executed. Wish I was there right now! I love the sun being so big in the frame too, and it is well placed in the composition. I too think that cropping some from below would strengthen the image - perhaps about half the fg vegetation.
Thanks everyone for your input. I cropped from the bottom just a bit and then used a graduated filter to bring down the highlights and exposure on a small portion of the bottom.
Jack, this is such a beautiful image. The repost has put ROT "rule" into play....and is very nice. I still feel there was a lot of good stuff happening at the bottom that this crop has lost. I would still have a look at just toning down, ever so slightly, the bottom highlights.
I like the image very much. The birds, the sun and the sky are beautiful. The reflection as well. I like the original post more but wish the whole image was wider so we could get more insight to the depth and sheer numbers of the blast off. Contrary to what has been said already, I feel the image would have been stronger had we had more on the top. I wish we could see more of the birds and the sky above the birds as the orange sky and silhouettes are the stars of this image.
Several ways to go here, as with most good images. I'm partial to the cropped version but that's completely an individual choice -- no right or wrong. I do agree on toning down the brighter areas at the bottom if you go with the original version.
Diane I was originally shooting with a wide angle lens on a tripod and then all of the sudden they all flew up from the water. When this happened I picked up my camera which had my 400mm on it and managed to get several shots while the flock was in front of the sun. It truly was a blessing to be able to witness this.
Jack ,such a spectacle captured such an evocative image. Very special and inspiring for me this one. Also it's been lovely to read through the thread ,but simply what a great capture
Snow Geese Migration At Dawn.
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