another bird from the Alan Murphy workshop in Roma, Texas
thank you for looking, comments and critiques appreciated
canon 7d, 300mm f/2.8, 1/400 sec at f/5, iso 800 0EV, aperture priority on tripod.
almost full frame, cropped in LR, camera profile changed to camera faithful, temp upped, clarity, vibrance and blacks upped
In CS5, S&H and usm on bird and branch, background blurred
Last edited by pat lillich; 02-16-2011 at 08:35 PM.
What a humorous bird. I am not sure if I like a darker BG, but I think it would make the subject stand out more. Perhaps compare the two different styles.
Pat, excellent detail and colors, though a somewhat awkward position of the bird that seems to work IMO. I think the vegetation and much of the bottom area is problematic; seems like quite a bit of negative space that I can't see the purpose for (maybe the bird is looking to fly there?). It could just be me. Anyway I cropped much of it and removed vegetation that remained just as an alternative. Is this OK? regards~Bill
Last edited by WIlliam Maroldo; 02-17-2011 at 12:00 AM.
I guess the issue would be if the plants in the frame actually serve to reference "up" and if they are cropped, does it just look like an upside down photo.
Very nice photo, good repost. As for the cloned out plants, I understand Chris's point and if I had to choose leave the plants in or remove them, I would vote to remove them, but either way works. I like the tighter crop.
thanks for the input everyone - it was fun to catch the bird upside down. I was torn between both crops, and went with the one with lower vegetation to offer an explanation of what the bird was looking at, but I like Bill's too - it is cleaner and just a little surreal(which to me is a good thing) , but explains less.
I believe that all the wonderful input and advice offered here is really helping to improve my photographs (thank you all so much!), but some times I get too caught up in trying to "do it right" instead of just enjoying what I'm doing. This photo I enjoyed.
Pat, i really enjoyed the OP. The bird is one I've not seen before and seeing him hanging upside down made me laugh out loud. I agree about getting too caught up in methods. I do that too, and then come home and spend all kinds of time being hyper-critical of what I've done. I need to try harder to remember that this is what I'm doing for FUN.
Texas Pyrrhuloxia
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