Hi everyone. This is my first photo post here. I regularly visit this site and am grateful to everyone as it has helped me learn so much.
I took this one yesterday outside my apartment with 40D-300 f/4 L nonIS-1.4x at f/7.1 and 1/4000. I did not mean to shoot at f/7.1. I was shooting the bird at close quarters and it flew off...sat on this branch and flew off the next second. I could only make two shots of this composition. It was not as dark as it seems. Shot in sRAW and sharpened in DPP. I did simple levels adjustment to darken it(in DPP).
Let me know what you like and dont like about it. Would a different crop help? This was originally a vertical crop. I did think of cropping the lower-right clump of leaves. But I did not want to make it too tight. I feel that the empty space is as important as the bird and the leaves in this image. One other option was cloning them off but I try to stay away from that as much as I can :-)
Thanks in advance
Last edited by Kaustubh Deshpande; 03-23-2009 at 02:18 PM.
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Big welcome to BPN, very nice first post I love the framing provided by the branches and leaves. I may increase the saturation or use a color filter to boost the BG. I like the crop as preented.
I really like this shot, and I think the cropping and composition are spot-on. The increasing luminance toward the bottom tends to pull my eye in that direction. You've almost got a natural mask here, so there are a zillion ways you could play with the background color and luminance. Nice job on this!
I recently started doing contract business writing and planned to use the silhouette of a mockingbird to convey that I can adapt my writing style to many different "voices" as needed by my clients. I discovered your photograph today. It's beautiful and would work perfectly for this. Would you be willing to license the use of the image? I would use it on stationery, business cards and on a lightly trafficked website.
Mockingbird silhouette
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