Hoodies!

Gallery: AvianPosted March 23, 2011200 views5 comments

Canon EOS REBEL T2i
EF400mm f/5.6L USM
2/18/2011 – 10:02:31 AM
1/400 sec
Manual
f/8
ISO 400
Focal length 400 mm
Handheld
Viera Wetlands, Viera, Florida
Raw file processed in PSE9

I kind of fell in love with these guys. The entire frame was only more of the water you see here, and the group of hooded mergansers. They are obviously very much too far away to make an image of one or even two or three of them, but with this many it's maybe a portrait of the group, and maybe the group as a whole is large enough. Cropping could have been done any of a dozen ways. Feedback on whether you'd crop less or differently and anything else would be greatly appreciated. I think for sure you'll need to look at the larger version of this one. Thank you!

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by Robert Holguin on March 24, 2011 at 1:55 AM

Beautiful photo. Great water color and reflections. It would have been nice for all them to be facing the same direction but cannot always get what we want. I like the crop. Well done.

Registered on January 25, 2011, 44 Posts, 294 Comments

Comment posted by Lucy VanSwearingen on March 24, 2011 at 7:10 AM

Hysterical...poor little guy left behind.

Obviously this photo has a story to tell. The 2 leaders, having almost complete reflections and being in formation followed by the "confused" ones, make their status perfectly clear

Those two have an "attitude. Love it....

Registered on May 23, 2009, 800 Posts, 2042 Comments

Comment posted by Brian Gatlin on March 24, 2011 at 11:45 AM

a nice collection of mergansers, Barbara. I like your comp and the serene feeling of this. I think a little CW rotation is in order. There are noticable halos around the birds, probably from selective brightening, but easily fixed.

Registered on March 21, 2009, 202 Posts, 4187 Comments

Comment posted by Richard Ditch on March 24, 2011 at 11:53 AM

This group doesn't work for me, but then I rarely can pull off a group shot that looks good anyway. There is too much chaos in this group as shown - I don't care for the bird near the end looking off axis, nor do I think the overlapping heads in the middle of the group help the image.

There's also a major processing issue - a strong halo around the heads thaat I assume comes from some tonal adjustment.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 1031 Posts, 12705 Comments

Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on March 24, 2011 at 8:05 PM

The ripples in the water are doing some funky things with the reflections of the leading bird and also of the trailing bird. It's unfortunate they were so far out. They're an interesting bunch.

Registered on January 24, 2011, 576 Posts, 6942 Comments