Shag.... Stick...

[Chris Martinez]

Little Pied Cormorant - Microcarbo melanoleucos

Brisbane, QLD AUS. 11/8/10

1D4, 600mm IS, 1.4x II, tripod.

ISO 400, f/7.1, 1/1000, -1 1/3 EC, Evaluative Metering, Aperture Priority.

[Arthur Morris]

Lovely bird. Off-angled light well handled. HA good and BKGR not bad. Bird on the right might have been better here but this works for me.

[Marina Scarr]

Nice BG to go with your bird. Wonderful pose/angle of the bird itself but feel it would look better in the right side of the frame. Your bird appears soft to my eyes. I would try some sharpening.

[Paul Lagasi]

Good advice above, nice captured image, I gotta get down under some day, some fantastic birds there...well done

[Randy Stout]

Chris:

Good input from the folks above. I do agree that the traditional choice of framing, with this angle of gaze, would be to place the bird more to the right in the frame.

In a perfect world, I would prefer the light angle to be just a bit more towards your right shoulder, to give at least a little light onto the back.


Cheers

Randy

[Chris Martinez]

Thanks for the feedback I had fleetingly considered framing the bird on the right but wasn't sure it would work. I must confess I didn't try it to see though I'll give it a whirl./


Cheers