Osprey with Alewife from May 21st. My only trip this year. 1DMkIII on 500f4 handheld at iso400, manual exp., 1/1600 at f6.3. 3/4 of frame. Bob
Osprey with Alewife from May 21st. My only trip this year. 1DMkIII on 500f4 handheld at iso400, manual exp., 1/1600 at f6.3. 3/4 of frame. Bob

Great shot, only thing is too centered.
I agree with Troy, I would crop some from the left

If you have more room on the top, I would add more on top, crop the river part on the bottom and some left. Just my personal taste, TFS>
Try this crop - left and bottom - Thanks
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Bob,
Here is a my version of the shot. I hope you don't mind me doing the repost, if you do, please let me know, I will remove the shot.
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Last edited by Troy Lim; 06-05-2010 at 09:50 PM.
Like your repost crop Bob. Very nice exposure and details.

too tight on the top as presented, a bit soft too.
I used content aware fill brush in CS5 to add canavas on the top, masked the bird and ran NR on BG plus light tone down, HLS on the bird layer plus final smart sharpen.
Would look much better if you start from RAW
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A nice original capture and and excellent repost by Arash.
Arash. Did you tone down some of the brighter whites? (It is hard to tell--I am sitting in the Little Rock airport facing east on a clear morning. It is the only seat near a plug!
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I like the sharpness, eye contact and setting. Great to see the fish so well. Arash's repost looks really good, maybe a tad oversharpened, I would only tone down the whites more.
Like the Arash repost and agree with Axel both on the sharpening and the whites.
The other thing that I think would make this stronger would be to tone down the hot green foliage above the subjects and heading toward the elbow on the right wing.

Hey Artie,
Yes, I toned down the whites a bit using highlidht shadow tool (highlight slider at 10), I think would work even better if I had the RAW.
I extended canvas on the top first, then picked spot healing brush tool (J) then chose size 70, hardness 50, spaceing 25 (click content aware box) and pianed right on the border where canvas was added. It filled that area nicely. Then I painted the remaining area one line at a time. It looked good after the first round but there were some artifacts between the horizontal lines so I painted those areas again and this is what I got.
I was even able to get rid of a HUGE three in BG in one of my images with just a single pass of content aware fill, works great.
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