A little over a month ago we had a lot of geese flying through and stopping for a couple weeks over during migration. I had quite a few days and evenings of being able to watch them and wait for them to fly into different landscapes and I finally got them with the sun!
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Is this a composite: No
Nikon D3400
300mm
1/125
f/25
ISO 100
Cropped to 16:9
Beautiful image Vanessa. You are a patient soal!!
Thanks @Mario_Cornacchione I’m glad you like it! And about patience, that’s funny I think just straight up landscape photography without moving creatures in it takes way more patience! 
(maybe this photo isn’t technically landscape?)
Really nice scene. I might add a bit of canvas and provide some margin to the left of the sun and maybe even along the top above the clouds. No other thoughts, this one turned out quite well.
Hi @Harley_Goldman , thanks for looking and your feedback! I guess I needed to unzoom a bit. This is the original image so I really didn’t get a whole lot more than what I posted, but it’ll be good to know for the next time when I encounter this, just to pull back a little,right? This is the original…
Thanks, @Harley_Goldman Harley, for showing me! So is that a photo shop feature? I have Lightroom on my iPad, but I’m not seeing anything where I can add to an image. Thanks for your help and time!
I only use Photoshop, so I don’t know if it can be done in Lightroom.
I went to Image>Canvas Size and in there, increased the canvas (adds blank space around the image - I did vertical and horizontal increases). I then selected the vertical blank space of the image with the rectangle tool (any selection tool would work), then went to Edit>Content-Aware-Fill. I did the same with the top, then cleaned up things with the cloning tool. It took a couple of minutes.
That sounds really neat, so it just automatically knows the color to put in the extra canvas? I’ve tried photoshop before on my iPad and I find it too much for me! But I think I would really like it when I get a computer down the road. I know I would need to get some lessons too, but I can see how invaluable these tools can be. But for this shoot I probably could have crafted it better in the field! Thanks for sharing your knowledge @Harley_Goldman!
Content aware fill doesn’t just put color in the blank canvas, but it adds appropriate content. It often does an absolute masterful job (like for example putting cliff in an image that has a corner of sky showing and you want the sky to disappear and have all cliff along the top of your image). Every now and then, it adds stuff that leaves me scratching my head wondering where the heck it got it from. But it usually works pretty well and often is downright amazing.
