Cruising Pelican

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Critique Style Requested: Standard

The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.

Description

I got this shot a while back over on the coast a while back. The prehistoric look of the bird, and the exotic looking background reminds me of King Kong’s Skull Island.

Specific Feedback

Composition? I know this isn’t an ideal BIF shot considering it’s angling away from the camera but I like where it’s looking, and flying toward.

Technical Details

D500, Nikon 200-500 lens, 1/1600th, f 8.0, 675mm, ISO 2500, monopod, cropped to 5004 x 3143

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A very cool image, Dave. Nice job on the pelican and this certainly looks like a frame from an old time adventure movie. Just as a nit, do you think you could add a touch of canvas to the top to clear the right hand peak?

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Hi Dave
I love the concept and the Pelican feather detail is very good. If only you could get birds to do another flyby to get another shot at the mounts.
Peter

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Dennis-

Thanks for the suggestion. I DO think it benefits with not having the upper right formation not having its top cut off. How’s this?

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Yeah, huh. Actually, this is a portion of the rocky coastline with some crashing surf flowing down looking like mountain waterfall to me, and those growy things could be some kind’ve exotic, prehistoric trees.

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Cool image Dave with bird looking over such a wonderful scene. The repost is a nice improvement.

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Nice job on the repost, Dave.

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Thanks. Content-aware fill sure is handy.