Fish Crows at Dawn

[Joel Eade]

An attempt at producing an intentional blur from the Hooptie Deux as a large flock of crows left their roost in pre-dawn light.

EOS 1 D MKIII
70-200 2.8L IS USM at 130mm hand held
ISO 1250
f/5.6
1/10 sec
evaluative metering at zero

Any comments, suggestions are appreciated, I have no experience with this technique.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Joel, I love the layers of colors - they are gorgeous. To me the blur is very pleasing - I might clean up the birds at the top to leave some open space but I'll leave it to the bird blur experts to give you a good critique:)

[Indranil Sircar]

Very nice composition, Joel. I am with Cheryl on the layers of colors. For the blur itself, I would have preferred a bit more definition. But I think the landscape and the gorgeous colors of the sky compensate for it.

[denise ippolito]

Joel, Beautiful colors and the blur effect looks nice to me. I like Cheryl's idea regarding the 2 top birds. I also might evict the one on the right that looks like a spot. Maybe some NR. Very lovely and I do wish it were mine:)

[Paul Lagasi]

Very cool image and color..nice work

[Kerry Perkins]

Joel, I think you did a good job on this. I really like the composition, colors, and blur. The one cloud is a bit problematic, but not too much so. A little noise reduction would be good.

[Judy Howle]

The colors are beautiful!