Reflections

Gallery: AvianPosted December 12, 2009160 views7 comments

This photograph was taken in the harsh time of the day. I have never worked with black and white, until know and checking out the other galleries I do not see were there are many postings either. I like the way this one turned out. When I printed it, the reflection looks like a painting. I was wondering what your thoughts might be? If I have posted this in the wrong gallery, please let me know. The only manipulations I have performed on the photo was to crop it by 20% and I changed it to black & white. The color photo with the harsh lighting just did not appeal to me. I have included a larger view also. All C & C's appreciated. Thank you all for taking the time to view my photography!

Canon 50d, Hand Held, shutter speed 1/500sec, focal length 200mm, F/7.1, ISO 400, metering mode Pattern, exposure Normal, exposure compensation 0.67

Carlette Bragg

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Wayne Willison on December 12, 2009 at 10:24 AM

Carlette, this has a beautiful fan like appearance. I love the pose you captured and the reflection and the conversion to BW. The only thing I'd suggest is that you might tone down the hotspots and those four vertical lines above the egret.

Registered on April 10, 2009, 292 Posts, 3967 Comments

Comment posted by Mia McPherson on December 12, 2009 at 10:57 AM

Carlette, I like this in B & W and love the reflection. As Wayne mentioned I would try to tone down the hot spots.

I like how the wings are spread and the curve of the egret's neck.

Registered on June 25, 2007, 491 Posts, 12566 Comments

Comment posted by Pat Sampson on December 12, 2009 at 11:44 AM

Carlette,

I like your conversion a lot. The hot spots don't bother me but I'm probably in the minority on that - to me it's the way we frequently see the birds. My only nit in this is the shadow across the extended wing. I still like the image very much but think it would be stronger without the shadow. Nothing you could do about that of course. (smile)

pat

Registered on May 19, 2007, 953 Posts, 15989 Comments

Comment posted by Ron Bielefeld on December 12, 2009 at 1:52 PM

I agree with the others Carlette. I would work on the contrast and brightness a bit in this one to see if you can tone down the bit of harshness I feel when viewing this as posted. Overall, a very nice comp.

Registered on December 6, 2008, 360 Posts, 7132 Comments

Comment posted by Sally King on December 12, 2009 at 1:59 PM

I love the birds pose and that glorious reflection. Definitely worth doing some more work on.

Registered on December 2, 2008, 416 Posts, 4450 Comments

Comment posted by Bill Leggett on December 12, 2009 at 3:01 PM

Carlette, you have an excellent pose with the wingspread, and the reflection is a bonus. I agree that the harsh light makes it tricky, sometimes lighting just doesn't work in our favor, so maybe it would be a good thing to work on bringing out some of the midtones.

Registered on July 21, 2004, 706 Posts, 3233 Comments

Comment posted by David Bostock on December 12, 2009 at 7:58 PM

I love the pose here. I think if you can tone down the highlights, without further darkening the shadows this would be great. I actually like the dark shadows as they are...

Registered on November 1, 2003, 90 Posts, 2778 Comments