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Buzzard Landing (C).

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Posted by Mike Andrews on July 8, 2009 at 2:37 AM
Buzzard Landing (C).
Very harsh lighting, so some fill-in lighting in PS. Slight crop to centralize subject (it was too far to the left before).

All C&C welcome.

Nikon D3, Nikon 300mm/2.8 @F2.8. 1/8000 ISO 1000 EV -0.3 HH
Posted by Guy Rogers on July 8, 2009 at 1:16 PM
Hello Mike.

My first thoughts when I first opened this was if only the light had been behind you, it would have made this a completly different image.

I would have liked some more room on the left as the wing is just going out of the image. And I think it would have been nice to see abit more of the fence were the Buzzard is about to land.

From a tech point of view there are a lot of problems with this image. But at the same time I like this image its in a nice setting and as a nice feel to it.

I dont know what you skills are like on the computer, but if this was mine I would make some more canvas on the left to give the wing some room. And at the same time try and make the fence alittle bigger. There are two large blown out areas in the back ground. I would clone over these useing the clone tool at 30% . Taking the Green trees in the left corner for a sorce.

With some work I think you could turn this image around.

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Posted by Mike Andrews on July 8, 2009 at 2:11 PM
My skills are very limited, but using your tips I will play around with this image.

Thanks for the comments.