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
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
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.
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 :-)
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...
Last edited by Joseph Przybyla; 04-23-2016 at 10:10 AM.
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
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.