Stork

[Milan V]

White stork Ciconia ciconia

Canon 40D, Canon 500mm + 1.4TC, ISO 400, 1/3200, f6.3, +0.3
PP: minimal crop, shadows, contrast, sharpness




Best!
Milan

[Daniel Cadieux]

Good exposure and sharpness. Sky colour looks great too. I wish more of the body was included in the frame, and as posted there is too much empty space IMO. Since this is "minimal" crop, I'm sure you could take some more away without affecting IQ. HA is could be a little better too.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Always great to see this stork species. I like the sharpness and would add to Daniel's comments that some of the whites are overexposed. Recovering them in your RAW converter shouldn't be a problem.

[Aidan Briggs]

Good comments from above. I would definitely crop some of the extra space. Linear Burn works well on highlights such as these.

[Harshad Barve]

very well said above . This is very diffrent compo for me , liked it very much
TFS

[Milan V]

Thank you all! With minimal crop I mean that I just cut some mm on the right side due some feather on the left wing which not fixed.
Regarding space.... I always left more infront of animal that I left some room for "movement". Without it, photo look too static for me. Wrong approach?
Thanks for explanation!