"Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head"

[Myer Bornstein]

Today in Key West having light to heavy rains, seas running high with the seas coming over the breakwater and very brisk winds. The Ibises were all feeding in large puddles in the park across from the beach.
This was taken with the D300s, Sigma 150-500 lens hand held with me and the camera in rain gear.

Picture adjusted in PS and sharpened

150-500mm @ 500mm
750mm (in 35mm film)
Subject dist: 11.2m
1/250 sec, f/9
Mode: Av
Metering: Multi-segment
ISO: 400
White balance: Auto
Flash: Off

[Robert Amoruso]

Myer,

Your on the right track here. Getting him in the rain adds interest to the image.

Nice pose and head position good with sharpness in the eye to the end of the beak.

I would suggest cropping room off the back. Two reasons, not too interesting back there and get the bird out of the center of the image. Try for twice the room in front (beak to image edge) as to the back (tail to image edge) for a well proportioned crop.

Looking forward to meeting you on my workshop at Gatorland next month.

[Myer Bornstein]

Thanks for the suggestion Robert. Here is the image reformatted

[Robert Amoruso]

That's good Myer. My other suggestion would be to leave more of the original room at the bottom. As you have a foot in the water you want to leave room for the "virtual feet" plus some more for the based to stand on.

Looking forward to meeting you on my workshop at Gatorland next month.

[Arthur Morris]

Good suggestions by Robert A above. Best would be to use an AF mode that allowed you to lock the focus and then re-compose with the bird back in the frame. There are lots of way to do that. Then a bit of Eye Doctor work and you would have yourself a pleasing image. Like the good EXP and the rain drops.