Took this last winter in Yellowstone. These geese were warming themselves on a thermal area. I took many shots of these two, but this one is my favorite. What do you think? Does it work?
Canon 7D
500/4
1/640s, f/7.1, ISO 400
Manual exposure
No crop
Took this last winter in Yellowstone. These geese were warming themselves on a thermal area. I took many shots of these two, but this one is my favorite. What do you think? Does it work?
Canon 7D
500/4
1/640s, f/7.1, ISO 400
Manual exposure
No crop
Charles,
I feel this would have worked better as a horizontal with more room on the left and right. In this post I would crop off the bottom right up to where the dirt intersects the left side of the frame.
I like that you capture one with head-up and head-tucked-in. Normally I prefer the have the birds in the FG sharp but here the one with the head up is the sharp one as it should be. The left one is reasonably sharp too and that is good.
Thanks for the comments, Robert - I took both vertical and horizontal shots, but this one had the birds posed in the most pleasing manner.
I was thinking about taking one of the horizontal ones and combining it with this one to create a composite with more room on the sides. Might do this as a repost. I didn't want to crop off any of the foreground because I wanted to show the colors of the thermal area offsetting the bright white snow.
thanks
Charles
Charles, this works if you go with Robert's suggestion on cropping up from the bottom, and I would have suggested the same. I do also agree on wanting to view this horizontally too. I do like the different poses, and just love the wintery mood.
Charles, I agree with the crop suggestions a horizontal orientation. That bright white band below does not add anything to the image, therefore cropping it out will only strenghten the image with a cleaner edge. With the remaining snow and thermal waters elsewhere in the image we will still clearly see the offsetting colours between them. I'd also eliminate what looks like a tiny part of another goose peeking in at right (I suspect the vertical was to avoid including other geese close by?).
I love the play of poses between the subjects, and the image is well exposed - not the easiest scene to do so, but you got it right.
I was able to create a composite using a landscape version (taken a few seconds earlier) and the portrait version from the original post. I did this by setting them up as layers in Photoshop and selectively combining elements from the 2 layers. I also removed the rock to the right near the tail of the goose on the right. What do you think?
Last edited by Charles Scheffold; 01-11-2011 at 10:56 PM.