This is real nice. I like that the two outer birds are both wings down while the middle is wings up. Nice light on them too against that darkish BG. There looks to be a little noise in the BG but that's easy to clean up.
Good job with the spacing and the framing and I like the BKGR (and the EXP). The two problems (which) are somewhat related) that I have with the image are that the birds are flying both up and away from you and thus, the wing positions of the first and last bird are problematic...
If the birds had been much lower in the sky and flying towards you you would have created a much more pleasing image.
later and love, artie
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Thanks very much for the comments. I have a few other images from that day with similar lighting. I'll post one or two
others with perhaps a better flight angle. These swans just don't listen to my directions :)
Terry
Trumpeters - Snohomish River Valley
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