Eurocephalus anguitimens

Gallery: AvianPosted May 11, 201783 views4 comments

One more image from last trip to Kruger Park. Although I like the action, I'm not sure about the background.
Any comments are appreciated.

Canon 5D Mk III, Canon 500mm f/4 + TC 1.4x
f/8, 1/250, ISO 400, fill flash

Jefferson

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4 comments

Comment posted by Stephen Kaluski on May 12, 2017 at 11:11 AM

If you were a little more to your right Jefferson then the preening bird 'might' be more in view. The fill-in has helped the shadows for sure. I would just run a filter over that top left to reduce the lighter area so you can have a more balance backdrop and it would help with the LH subjects head.

TFS
Steve

Registered on March 25, 2007, 189 Posts, 1064 Comments

Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on May 12, 2017 at 4:12 PM

Good suggestion from Steve. A more complicated approach, but should help your BG more would be to select the birds and perch, create a separate layer of them then average the underlying layer, then fade the averaging to bring out some detail.

Registered on July 24, 2006, 2741 Posts, 12349 Comments

Comment posted by Elizabeth Holbrook on May 13, 2017 at 10:48 AM

I like the action and detail in the bird and the perch. If you could not change your position to get more greenery in the background , perhaps trying some different post processing techniques to fill in the highlights. Overall, nice image.

Registered on May 6, 2015, 43 Posts, 221 Comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on May 14, 2017 at 2:37 PM

Nice combination of poses, Jefferson, and I like the composition. Most of the bg works for me, but larger oof branch on the left does draw my eye and I'd probably remove it.

Registered on January 28, 2008, 1767 Posts, 23192 Comments