Shooo Fly...

[Joseph Przybyla]

Another image from my time spent photographing the Black Swans at Lake Morton in Lakeland, Florida. This lake has a captive population of four species of swans. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D7000
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED shot at 175mm (262mm FFE)
1/500 F/8 Matrix Metering +1/3 EV ISO 1000 AWB
Post processed in Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Marina Scarr]

Spot on exposure and great details. You have just enough eye and beak to make this work. For me, I would crop off a substantial amount from the left side using the diagonal crease coming from somewhere near the left bottom corner.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Excellent blacks and details. I love the curled feathers in lower right corner. Good pano comp, I rather like it as is...and I'd hate to lose that fly :-)

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Joe, are you able to find where the actual FP was on the original capture?

If it was on the eye, then Daniel do you think the lens is front focusing??? As to me, the FG plumage looks sharper than the eye/neck???

Perhaps a small loss of the LHS, but still retaining the fly, just to take the off off centre.

TFS
Steve

[Marina Scarr]

I must admit that I didn't see the fly, partly b/c I guess the title didn't register. The pano works, but I'd still prefer some off of the left.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Thanks everyone for viewing and commenting, very much appreciated.

Steve, here is a screen capture showing the focus point. In the next reply I will post the 1:1 straight from the camera image. Let me know what you think...

[Joseph Przybyla]

Here is the 1:1 image straight from the camera.

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Joe, I might say yes based on this, however the eyes is quite small.

As I said, I get the impression, if as the FP was on the eye then the front plumage and neck would perhaps have the same amount of sharpness???? I could well be wrong and totally off the ball here, maybe Dan or Arash could add here.

[Lorant Voros]

Another artistic close up. Like the pano crop, the perfect exposure and detail. Fly is a nice extra touch to it. Well done, again, Joe.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Thanks everyone for viewing and commenting, very much appreciated.