Critique Style Requested: Standard
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Description
I was not sure whether this image was more for the Avian or the Landscape section… In some ways, it is for both, depending on where the viewer’s attention goes. Common cranes flying in the evening light, in early January, getting ready for migration. In the background, my beloved Gran Paradiso mountains…
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Comments welcome on composition, colors, and effectiveness of the image to interest the viewer
Technical Details
Olympus OM-1 II, 100-400 II @ 123 mm, ISO 6400, f/10, 1/320, developed with LR Classic, de-noised , cloned away a couple of cranes outside the geometry of the group…
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I like this a lot, Antonello. The birds add a lot to the image and the mountains and the birds form a nice balance.
Beautiful light and colors, Antonello. Given the smallness of the cranes,I’d say a bit more of a landscape than a bird image, but that’s just a matter of categorization, which isn’t really important to the image. I’m feeling like this might have worked even better if you’d zoomed all the way out and gotten more of the mountains and the trees in front of them. It feels a little awkward that just the top branches are sticking into the bottom of the frame.
Do you know if the three birds in the lower left corner are also cranes? They’re a bit too small to tell at the size we have to view it.
Really beautiful Antonello. This image shows the grandeur of the environment as the birds fly over. Including more of the mountains may be beneficial but this still give me a sense of the awe-inspiring landscape.
Thanks All for your comments! Yes I was trying to convey this sense of large expanses of sky and mountains and the long journey of the cranes…
@Allen_Sparks, @Dennis_Plank I was trying to include more mountains but the trees in the foreground were confused and not that nice, with some human disturbance too, so I opted for this composition… But I fully agree that another option would have been to have more “land” at the bottom…
As for the little birds, they are not cranes, I cant tell for sure but I think they are carrion crows.
