Mother and Child

[Michael Pancier]

One of my pics from last May.

I burned the background to keep it from distracting the paid. Besides adding some light on the beak, any suggestions?

40d+500 4.0L
f/5
1/400
ISO 400
580ex II with better beamer at - 2Ev

cropped to vertical

[Katie Rupp]

Michael, this is beautiful and I have no other suggestions for improvement than you have already identified. It is a very tender moment.

[Gus Cobos]

Hi Michael,
I like the composition and capture of mom and baby. I would turn the entire background to dark or black; the diagonal brown oof branch hitting mom is distracting, my eye keeps going there. I also see traces of cloning marks around the lower bill area..out side of this, I like it...:cool:

[Nonda Surratt]

Awahhhh Michael this is such a sweet moment, very nice.

Agree with Gus on the other

[denise ippolito]

Michael, The baby is so adorable-great capture!

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Love this tender shot, might soften it up and then bring back the eyes. Then maybe put it on a either white or black BG.

[Alfred Forns]

Mike for a nesting image it is very clean !!! These for me have to highest delete ratio of any !!! Can do much better with Purple Martins in flight !

Darkening the bg would make it look good but might not look natural at all? Would just go with the flow it is an excellent image !!

[Richard Waas]

Very nice Michael. I love the story....... Congrats!

[Michael Pancier]

here's a respost. Thoughts?

[Kathy Reeves]

Ahhhhhhhh! Looks much better with the dark BG!

[Gus Cobos]

Excellent Michael,
This does make the difference...good show...:):cool:

[Oscar Zangroniz]

Excellent re post Mike. Image is simply beautiful.