Corn Bunting - Bathing II

According to the EXIF data, this shot was taken 5 seconds prior to my last posting of a Corn Bunting.

600mm f/4 + 1.4x, 1/320 sec @ f9, tripod mounted, cable release used. PP in CS2. FF

Certainlybetter than the first one I think.
Trouble is it does not sit well in the frame. It needs more bottom and left . Is this full frame before we go any further ?

Cheers
JohnR

A bit more at the bottom and a little LESS at the left

Nice PoV

Andy, as you know, sometimes the situation decides the framing. If you look very closely bottom right of the C’buntings plumage, you will just be able to discern a “smudge” of brown, this is the mud of the nearside edge of the pool, so there was nothing to gain by heightening the image in the frame.

Now adding on the left. Hands up here. I usually prepare a number of images in one hit for web postings, and in this case I manipulated it and I haven’t stated it. I rotated it as shown, one degree clockwise and then cropped accordingly.

When you say less on the left, don’t you really mean the right ?? As the image has been flipped/mirrored.

Interesting, two comments made and one says add and the other crop the left, I personally would opt for the later.

Nice shot, looks like he'd been enjoying his bath! For me definately needs more room at the bottom for his tail, and a bit off the left to balance and give more at the right to look into. The ideal here would be to switch to portrait format given the pose/position of the bird, but that's not always possible.

Still plenty of detail and nice and sharp too.

Hi Ray

Too central and big in the frame for me and the lighting is also a little harse - good detail and sharpness!

David

Ok so I made a typing error !
I meant to say OFF the left, which is fairly obvious.
Wouldn't dream of putting any on.
JR