Critique Style Requested: Standard
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Description
This photograph was taken in the back of Rocky Neck State Park on Sept. 8 at 8:56 AM, with a very soft backlight. Thank you for stopping by.
Peter
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I really liked the close-up of this Snowy’s landing.
Technical Details
Z8, Nilon 180-600mm & 1.4ext, 840mm, f9, -.7EV, 1/1600, ISO 1600 and a 30% crop in DXO PhotoLab 9
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Wow Peter! The wings in this shot are almost angelic with the backlighting. The straight-on perspective is perfect. I’m sure this was difficult to capture. I’m curious if you have the feet in your original or not, but I doubt you were able to capture them or you would have included them. My only other comment is that my eyes are drawn to the bubbles behind the bird. Overall, though this one is frame worthy, IMO.
I love the wing spread and face, Peter. I do wish the feet weren’t missing. I wonder if a tighter crop removing some of the wings might be interesting?
HI Peter, nice head on pose conveying much energy. Love the raised wings. Too bad about the missing feet. I wonder what cropping up the legs some would do. Still, a fine image capturing a fine moment in nature.
Always nice to get a bird facing you as it lands and you captured this well, Peter. Excellent exposure on the whites. It might be worth playing around with different crops.
Hi Gary, Dennis, Allen Sparks & Allen Brooks
Thank you for the comments. The legs were underwater when I fired off the shot. Here is a repost with the bubbles and lower legs removed.
Peter
Hi again, Peter.
This is still feeling a little unbalanced to my eye. I downloaded this version and did some playing with it. This was what I came up with, though I hated losing any of those magnificent wings.
I agree it’s too bad that some of the wings are lost, but I like Dennis’s version. It brings the face into prominence and it seems to show an intensity, as if it’s concentrating on the landing.
Hi Dennis & Allen
Thank you for the comments.
Peter
