My last 6 months have been pretty busy with the new addition to the family as well as some of my own photography projects taking off and becoming very rewarding...
So with that, I haven't gotten to spend much time with the skimmers and the Terns and Oyster Catchers down at Nickerson Beach... Certainly not as much as I wanted to...
With that, last week afforded me the opportunity to abandon my 9-5 early enough to make the trek to Nickerson and to my reward of hopefulness, not only were the birds still there, but some friends were too...
I was not prepared for this type of image and this image spent some time in LR to adjust exposure and then I added the grain and darkened corners in PS...
I ALWAYS shoot the big lift off when these birds decide to circle the beach as a colony, but I never had one that I liked...
I like the light and mood. I only find the 'lump' of birds southeast of the center a bit distracting. The added grain and vignetting don't really work for me.
I'm not really liking the graininess and it just seems too dark to me. I like to see the birds coming toward the camera too, but you did capture the massiveness of the bird group very well and I like how you filled the frame with them.
I like the concept alot, not the darkened corners tho. To me they make an expansive image feel boxed in and I need the feeling of range (openness) here. (Hope I explained this well.....)
I sorta like the vignette, but would never add grain to am image if I didn't have to. I might sharpen up the birds a bit more too. Looks to me almost like a film image.
Saying Good Bye...
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