Look at my beautiful body!!?

[Dan Brown]

Not much meat on these guys! Cropped and PP'ed in ACR and CS3. C&C welcome.


Camera Model: NIKON D300, shoulder stock mounted
Shutter speed: 1/2000 sec
Aperture: 8
Exposure mode: Manual
Flash: Optional,TTL, -2.0 (unintentional)
Metering mode: Multi-segment
ISO: 400
Lens: VR 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6D
Focal length: 400mm
Focal length: 600mm (in 35mm film)
VR Image Stabilization: On
AF mode: AF-C

[Arthur Morris]

EXP, bird, pose, & SH: A+

Log: C-

Background: F

Not sure which is worse, the junk in the water or the tree reflections.....

Not a big fan of the Chinese painting initials either. Sorry: gotta be honest.

This can actually be a great learning experience: Isit possible to have sharp, perfectly exposed image of a beautiful bird in a great pose and yet fail to make a good photograph?

[Daniel Cadieux]

I'm not very fond of the "perch" and its large blunt ending, nor the very "cyan" water colour. The egret looks great though - lots of nice details.

[Dan Brown]

EXP, bird, pose, & SH: A+

Log: C-

Background: F

Not sure which is worse, the junk in the water or the tree reflections.....

Not a big fan of the Chinese painting initials either. Sorry: gotta be honest.

This can actually be a great learning experience: Isit possible to have sharp, perfectly exposed image of a beautiful bird in a great pose and yet fail to make a good photograph?

I couldn't agree more! Except for the initials:(. Just thought the body position capture was interesting enough to share.

[denise ippolito]

Dan, Very nice underwing details and great landing pose. I agree the BG isn't great and hurts the image.
PS-I like your initials.

[Michael Zajac]

Great landing pose.Agree about BG. I like the details TFS

[Dave Blinder]

Dan - If you wanted to get creative you could probably remove the log completely remove with mostly solid color, and crop a little tighter. Just an idea.