My Time- Early Morning

[Richard Mc Donald]

This shot epitomises why I love the remoteness of the area I live in and my love of bird/wildlife photography.

Canon EOS-1D Mark II
Canon EF 500L f/4.0
ISO 400
f/5.6
1/1600sec
AV
Evaluative Metering
Center Focus
RAW
Gitzo G-1348 Wimberly Head

Thanks
Richard

[Randy Stout]

Richard:

Very peaceful. I like the repeating angle trunks, play of light across the water in foreground, mist/fog, muted colors.
It would be worth the trouble to remove the out of focus branch in the left upper corner.

Well see.

Cheers

Randy

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Ditto Randy's comments. Love the peaceful feeling of this image and the beautiful lighting and composition. TFS.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the light, mood and composition and might only remove the OOF branch in the upper left.

[Mike Fuhr]

I agree - conveys the peace of early morning. Very nice mood. Maybe crop off the bottom to remove the oof grass and the thin strip of pond -- it helps focus the attention (mine at least:)) on the birds. I didn't even see the oof branch...

[Nicki Gwynn Jones]

I would definitely clone out the OOF branch. Otherwise, stunning - great mood :)

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

A nice moody image.....really liked it. Beautifull in every sense of the word. Having said that, I think it can be substantially improved by some curves work.....pumping in a little more contrast by setting the black point, for example.

I agree with Mike on cropping the bottom strip of water and may be crop a little from top to balance. A pano crop will do more justice and put the emphasis on the birds.