I'm not sure whether this belongs in this forum, or in the "Eager to Learn" forum.
This image is a puzzle for me when it comes to cropping. Whether to 1) leave it along, 2) crop it a bit tighter on all sides, 3) crop it square (rather than the current 5:4 aspect ratio), or 4) clone out the feet and tail on the reflection and crop out the rest of the reflection, retaining only the "top" dunlin, with perhaps a 2:1 aspect ratio crop.
Any comments greatly appreciated.
Tiger Tail Beach, on Marco Island
1D Mark II N
ISO 500
500 mm + 1.4x TC
1/1600 at f/8
I think that I would go for a landscape croping with more room at the right. The reflection is too good to be croped. super nice licht, action and background. The spreading of the tail and wings is awesome!
I like the crop as is, although I'm sure some others versions could work too. I kinda wish the the blue was a better hue than here, but that is highly subjective :-)
Mike, Mike, Mike. I am with John. This is a superb image. I gasped when it opened. I cropped it a bit and did a small CW rotation. Funny thing is depending on what you lined up from the bird to the reflection you got a different suggested degrees of rotation. I went with the two long toe. on the bird's left foot.
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wow, awesome image......I like cropping a wee bit off bottom.
Sometimes I just make a series of low res crops for comparison, and soon one will pop out at me as being optimal
Dunlin with Reflection
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