Gannets from Cape St. Marys Eco Reserve

[Matt Shetzer]

Finally getting to some image work ups from this summers trip to Newfoundland done.

I'd appreciate some feedback on this image, as I'm struggling with the crop.

Nikon d300, 500mm f/4, 1/1000 sec at f6.3, Iso 320

Thanks,
Matt

[Randy Stout]

Matt:

THe pose of the two rear birds is tremendous, particularly the overlapping wings, very touching. If the IQ will tolerate, I would crop away as much as I can to concentrate on those two.
Nice exposure.

Please include your camera/lens and post processing details.

Hope to see more from this trip.

Cheers

Randy

[Thanaboon Jearkjirm]

Very good exposure with good details in black and white, the in focus birds look sharp as well. The interaction is over the top, very lovely. I agree about tighter crop even though I don't mind the other OOF birds except the one standing solitary on the rock in the foreground, it took a bit of attention away from the main birds.

[Matt Shetzer]

Thanks for the feedback Randy and Thanaboon. Here is a tighter crop. It does pull the focus into the two birds much better. Thanks for the help on this one.
Matt

[Arthur Morris]

The courting birds are mega-beautiful but the o-o-f bird in the foreground is for me an image wrecker.... All that it needed to do was fly away.... Light, EXP, and courting birds gorgeous and perfect.