Gold & Blue

[Adams Serra]

I took this picture at Estero Lagoon a few weeks back. I believe the bird in the center of the frame here works well due to the colors in the background. What do you think?

MKIII
F 5.6
1/2000
Iso 400
100-400 @ 370mm

All comments are appreciated.

[Gus Cobos]

Hi Adams,
If you are going to leave the bird in the center of the frame, I would crop the composition into a pano, and clean up the dirty water, my eye keeps getting dirty...:eek: If you decide not to do the pano crop; I would move the bird to the right of the frame , complying with the rule of 1/3 and also cleaning up the water... In addition, you need to tone down the whites on the bird, they are a bit hot...:cool:

[Alfred Forns]

HI Adams bird does look fine there but would crop into more of a pano as suggested It will give a sense of forward motion Very pretty pose and love that water !!!! Excellent !!!

[Harold Davis]

nice catch, adams! i never would have thought of the pano idea, but i like it. perfect exposure on the bird and awesome bg!

[Adams Serra]

Hi Gus, What do you mean by dirty Water?

[Katie Rupp]

Beautiful color in this one, Adams. I vote for the pano crop, too.

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Love the blue and gold too. Agree with maybe taking a bit more off the top and go for a pano.

[denise ippolito]

it works for me. i like it