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Red Dawn Landing
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Red Dawn Landing

by Jim Lou

Gallery: AvianPosted December 4, 2010124 views5 comments
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Jasper Pulaski Fish & Wildlife Area IN. Nov 2010. I like the deep red of early light contrast aganist the green field with a group of landing sandhills.

Settings: Nikon D80, Nikkor 600mm, f4/, 1/200, ISO250

C&C are welcome and appreciated.

Comments

5 comments
Comment posted by Walt Sterneman on December 5, 2010 at 3:11 PM
Jim, I like the comp but it seems to be a little dark to me. Wonder if lightening it up a bit would help.
Registered on March 24, 2010, 73 Posts, 1268 Comments
Comment posted by Toni Lankerd on December 5, 2010 at 8:35 PM
I like the composition and the various layers of colors, Jim, but do agree with Walter regarding the darkness of the image. Nice catch of the Cranes coming in for a landing.
Registered on January 3, 2005, 360 Posts, 4004 Comments
Comment posted by Brian Vance on December 6, 2010 at 3:04 PM
I really like the midsection of this image with the orange trunks against the cool blues of the landing cranes.
Registered on October 31, 2008, 26 Posts, 136 Comments
Comment posted by Kerry Leibowitz on December 11, 2010 at 10:37 PM
I like this cropped a little bit from the top. Eliminating most of the sky (leaving a bit of sky and some room between the uppermost crane and the edge of the frame) helps put more attention on the birds and makes it more difficult for the eye to wander to the brightest area of the full frame as presented here.
Registered on November 1, 2003, 167 Posts, 5800 Comments
Comment posted by Jim Lou on December 12, 2010 at 1:42 PM
Thank you all for the feedbacks.
- The image is bit dark. I will bright it up a little bit while try to maintain color saturation.
- Crop out some sky from top of the frame.

Registered on August 3, 2010, 86 Posts, 273 Comments