Welcome to BPN Art! Great light, very sharp also. Nice foot!! The composition with the reflection is good IMO. If only the bird was walking toward you with a better head angle toward you also. I see what you are thinking with the wake and I like the wake behind the bird but I would like to see more room for the bird to walk into on the left. You could probably add canvas on the left in PS.
Hi Art - a big warm welcome to the BPN Family.
I like the reflection and the lowish shooting angle and the raised foot, sharp details throughout :)
With the bird moving to the right - you need more space on the right for him to walk into - as presented it is too tight on the right hand side, Head angle is off - the birds head ideally needs to be angled a couple of degree's towards you - the educational resources forum has a tutorial on head angles - you might have got away wiit it as presented if you had more room on the right!
Hi Art,
A very warm and big welcome to the BPN family...:) All of the techs. and good advise has been addressed. I am looking forward to your next capture...welcome aboard...:cool:
Great comments .. would also straighten the image but might loose some area? Agree on needing more room, with active birds you can't go wrong having some spare room !!! Love the feel, very fine image !!
I have over the last couple of years improved to the point that I am reasonably decent with the exposure and the focus, or at least if I miss I know why. Until now, for me if it was sharp and properly exposed it was a keeper. At first it was a bit overwhelming trying to make the exposure changes while tracking a bird moving from water to foliage to sky while still remembering to practice good camera technique. Of course there are times when I get so excited at just finding the bird that all the rules go out the window.
Having reached this point I am trying to move forward and feedback like this is just what I am looking for. I knew I was a bit tight with the crop, I think I tend to try to present the bird as large as is possible and in this case that worked against me. I had not even considered the angle of the birds head and looking through a lot of my shots I see that I often get the flat side profile. I just finished reading the above mentioned head angle tutorial and It makes a lot of sense.
Sharp. Love the raised foot. Too sharp, too tilted, too tight in the frame, bird angled away. Removing the 1.4X TC here would have been the way to go...
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I have over the last couple of years improved to the point that I am reasonably decent with the exposure and the focus, or at least if I miss I know why. Until now, for me if it was sharp and properly exposed it was a keeper. At first it was a bit overwhelming trying to make the exposure changes while tracking a bird moving from water to foliage to sky while still remembering to practice good camera technique.
You need to learn to work in Manual Mode. Do a search for "Working in Manual Mode" in the BIRDS AS ART Bulletin Archives.
Of course there are times when I get so excited at just finding the bird that all the rules go out the window.
That still happens to all of us.
Having reached this point I am trying to move forward and feedback like this is just what I am looking for.
That is why BPN is here.
I knew I was a bit tight with the crop, I think I tend to try to present the bird as large as is possible and in this case that worked against me.
That is a common error for most beginners when they get their first big lens. When making images that show the whole bird it is almost always best that the bird take up no more than 75% of the longest dimension of the frame.
I had not even considered the angle of the birds head and looking through a lot of my shots I see that I often get the flat side profile. I just finished reading the above mentioned head angle tutorial and It makes a lot of sense.
For sure.
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Hi Art. Welcome to the BPN family. I am a newbie here myself and have learned so much in a few short months...
I hope you don't mind that I made some geometrical adjustments to your image. I straightend it by making a vertical between the eye on the bird and the eye in the reflection. I took some canvas from the right and added some to the left with "content aware scaling" in CS4. This gives the bird some room to move forward and still maintains the wake and droplet rings behind it.
Thanks for the repost Kerry. Good job on the right but not on the left where your efforts are obvious. And a bad head angle is still a bad head angle and in this case, an image killer. Art needed to move left and forward a bit (if possible) in an effort to parallel the bird.
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