I took this picture while on a recent visit to Lodi,CA. I have been travelling to this place since past two years in the hope of getting a good shot of Sandhill cranes/Swans/Snow goose. But its strange that they always land in the private properties meant for hunting or far away to be visible only with Binoculars :).
The only good thing is sunset there which is excellent. Posting one of pics from my recent trip.
Your comments/critique are welcome.
Specs - EOS 30D,29-135mm, 120mm @ 1/1250 & AV 10, ISO 250, Handheld.
I think this is beautiful!!- the colors are cool!-If it were mine I would crop some off the top-right under the white strip in sky-also get rid of birds in sky they don't help they take away from your beautiful image-also lots of dust bunnies in sky. Love the swans in water along w/ colors reflected in water-but that's just my opinion. I'm sure you'll get better input from the pros
Big pluses in the image Nagesh are the placement of the swans and the sun's color. Your silhouette is sharp as I would recommend. i agree witht Denise on cloning the OOF birds in the sky and the dust spots.
I posted a recropped version that tightens the image up and places the sun and swans in a rule of thirds composition. I do like the clouds at the top but feel the tighter crop accentuates the other strong points of the image. I left the cropping grid on the image to demonstrate. I also preserved your copyright by copying it onto the recropped version. Thanks for posting.
I agree with Robert's crop on the two ends but I also think you should consider taking a bit off the bottom and leaving the clouds at the top. Either that or slightly fade the top of the frame's edge so it looks like more of a natural gradient (as it does in the original presentation.)
It certainly is a beautiful moment you captured and the exposure is perfect. Nicely done.
Hi Nagesh,
I'm going with Julie on this one.......as I like the top clouds too much to crop them out........Roberts crop off the left and right is what I was going to recommend also. The colors are superb as is the placement of the birds........did you explore this in a vertical???......it would be interesting to compare if you did......as I personally would have tried to eliminate the house.......even if it is minor......and see what that would have brought.......although you were almost maxed out on the 28-135.....and not sure the extra 10mm would have tightened it up enough. Overall......nicely seen and a minor crop........will further strengthen the composition.