Taken at Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island, Florida.
Canon 7D
100-400 @ 210mm
1/1600
f8
ISO 400
EC +1/3
HH, cropped to pano to remove too much water at bottom, levels and sharpened in CS5.
C&C welcome and appreciated. Thanks,
Rachel
More Pelicans
Taken at Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island, Florida.
Canon 7D
100-400 @ 210mm
1/1600
f8
ISO 400
EC +1/3
HH, cropped to pano to remove too much water at bottom, levels and sharpened in CS5.
C&C welcome and appreciated. Thanks,
Rachel
Hi Rachel. This is a handsome pair of birds swimming together in a nice pattern (and I love the water dripping off the beak of the bird in the BG! I have a couple of suggestions. I think you could use a bit more room on the left hand side to give the birds room to swim into. Also, I think you need a little CW rotation. The bird in the BG is a little OOF Perhaps a smaller aperture would have helped?
Hi Rachel, good points by Ian. You did a good job on the whites, maybe could get a little more detail with just a few points less. For me, the second bird doesn't add anything to the image. Your aperture here was not enough to get the DOF you needed to have both birds in focus. When capturing more than one bird, it is customary to have some separation between them and when using telephoto lenses you will get much better results if you get the birds much nearer to the same distance from the camera. Good eye to see the composition! A little more room on the left, as Ian mentioned, would make the image stronger.
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Hi Ian and Kerry - thanks for the comments. I actually wanted the rear bird oof so maybe I didn't go far enough with it and should have gone with f7.1 or 6.3. I guess the comp would have worked better if the rear bird also trailed the front bird but sadly that wasn't the case.
Thanks,
Rachel
Rachel, I wondered if you were trying to get that second bird OOF when I first viewed the image. Again, having a little more room both in depth and in width between the two birds would have helped the viewer gain that thought process and accept the OOF bird a bit easier. You can still add some blur to him in pp but seeing as he's so close to the first bird it might look a bit "photoshopped."
Nice try - keep at it! Echoing the main subject is a good way to fill the frame.
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