Eurasian Curlew (Numenius Arquata)

[Attila Seprenyi]

Hello everybody! This is my first post even though i have been reading this forum almost daily since i joined:)
Eurasian Curlew is my favorit shorebird and fortunately i got some oportunity to take a few photos of these birds this spring in Sweden.
Canon 40D + EF 400 5.6L ISO200 1/640sec f5.6 (beanbag) Comments and criticism are welcome.

[Gus Cobos]

Hi Attila,
A big warm welcome to our BPN family...I like your image and capture very much...your subject has fine sharp feather details, and the color rendition is very good, I like the out of focus background with it's pale soft earth tones, which compliments your bird quite well. A few points to consider...I would suggest on off centering your bird a little to the right side of the frame by cropping 1/4 from that side and adding some canvas to the left side of the frame in the direction that he is looking into. The head angle is a tad off, it needs about a .25 degrees counter clock wise rotation...you do have a clean sharp eye...and I like the low capture angle...well...enough said...:) Again I welcome you to the family...looking forward to seeing more of your captures...good show...:cool:

[James Boland]

Attila... I agree with the above. I really like the image. Looks to me the lighting was very good. I look forward to more of your images.

Jim

[Cheryl Slechta]

Attila, welcome! Your first post is really well done! The bird is so sharp and I like the bg and the colors as Gus
noted.:)

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Cheryl

[Attila Seprenyi]

Thank you for the welcome! I am the happy to be a member of this big community.
Gus. Thank you for your suggestions. I agree with the rotation . During postprocessing i crop the original image and in fact i tried to avoid centering the bird. After you mentioned i saw it needs some more cut on the right side. What do you think of the new version?

[Glenn Romain]

Very nice capture indeed Attila , good and sharp with plenty of detail , love the soft colors of the BG. What really puts this one over for me is the captured walking of the bird instead of the traditional still like pose :)

[Gus Cobos]

Excellent Attila,
now it's over the top, a 10+ in my book...:):cool:

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Isten hozott Attila! ;)

I like your repost very much, the extra trim taken off the side tightened the composition nicely. Thanks for sharing, looking forward to more nice pictures from Sweden. :)

[Ilija Dukovski]

Welcome Attila,

Such a great bird and image.
Hope to see more...

[Lance Peters]

Another big warm welcome to the BPN Family - lovely first post - Agree with Gus's fine critique. Like the raised foot pose and the BG compliments the bird well. The low shooting angle is really good - well done!!
Looking forward to seeing more :)

[Alfred Forns]

Big Warm Welcome Attila Great suggestions and Gus nailed the critique

Can add I like how you avoided the lighter areas right behind the bird !!! Excellent image !!

[Attila Seprenyi]

Thank you for the warm welcome and your kind words.
Köszönöm Ákos.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Köszönöm Ákos.

Örülök, hogy nem én vagyok az egyetlen Magyar itt. Még van a Szimuly György és a Vörös Lóránt is.


:) :) :)

[Gyorgy Szimuly]

Good to see you here Sepi :) Welcome :)
Nice bird, nice image. I like the colors and the low perspective. My eyes are always jumping on the curved oof grass element behind the bird's neck. Otherwise a cool shot.

Szimi