Sandhill Crane Landing

[RichardCurtin]

This was taken at Bosque this past January near sunset. Canon 1DMkIV, manual, 1/25 @F9, Canon 800mm with 1.4 converter, ISO 200. Only noise reduction and some sharpening of the head and body. Would appreciate any comments and suggestion.

[Doug Brown]

This has a nice dreamy feel to it Richard. It really helps on panning blurs like this one to get the head sharp, which doesn't happen very often unfortunately.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Good pan-blur. I like the movement throughout. I also like the sense of a sizeable flock present on the ground. I would at the very least eliminate the grayish blob in LRC - you could even crop out the lowest dark band for a cleaner lower edge.

[Shaun Boycott-Taylor]

A good pan blur. They are never easy to achieve I know I've tried!
Nice overall blur in the image, its a shame about the grey blob in the background. It would be an idea to clone it out and crop a bit off the bottom to eliminate the brown foreground.

Hope this helps

Shaun

[DanWalters]

Really like the blur! Great sense of motion.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Loved it...very surreal and attractive. Well composed and exposed.

[Brendan Dozier]

Very nice blur effect, Richard. Wonderful sense of motion, and like how the head stayed fairly sharp.

[denise ippolito]

Richard, Lovely blur and I agree w/ Daniel suggestions regarding the lower edge. Soft color tones add to this IMO.

[RichardCurtin]

Thank you all for the comments and suggestions. Will work on the lower edge.