Getting ready for fall

[Randy Stout]

This trumpeter swan was swimming at the local bird sanctuary, and inspired by some of the lovely water reflections shown recently, thought I would capture this fellow as a warm up for the fall color.

Nikon D300 300mm F/4 at 4.5 1/640 ISO 800 handheld, as low as I could get with the fence.

Post: NX2 USM levels and curves crop for comp

Comments always appreciated.

Cheers

Randy

[Peter Wallack]

Way to almost blown whites is this compositions only proble. If you have Photoshop CS2 or better you can fix this under the Image-Adjust menu go down to SHADOWS/BRIGHTNESS. In less than one minute with these two sliders you will have fixed the problem.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Nice water colors and serene mood. I would tone down the whites a bit more, particularly on the body. This is a species I still have to see.

[denise ippolito]

Beautiful water colors. Nice pose and the details look good. Agree w/ toning down the whites a bit. Nicely composed.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Randy, super comp, and I like the regal pose. Good detail and sharpness on the head and neck, and the whites on the body seem borderline to me. I would liked to have seen more of the reflection, as what we can see, looks great. I know having included all of the reflection if you had it, would reduce the size of the swan in the overall image. Great capture.