Flock Of Dunlin+Pano

Photo of a flock of Dunlin flying past me on a very cold ,early morning on the north Norfolk coast,I used a slow shutter speed to give me this effect and have left it 'as shot' with some birds clipped.
All Comments And Advice Welcome

Techs;
Nikon D300
Nikon F4VR600
F5.6,1/10
iso 400
Matrix
PP-CS3,Full Frame

Thanks For Looking

Happy New Year To All

Nice one Craig, the clipped birds dont bother me when this number of birds are in shot.
Robert.

I like the effect you have achieved, Craig. Worth the cold wait IMHO. I hope you get more comments than I have with my sprouts

Hello Buddy!!

Nice shot,would be tempted to crop the blue from the top just to see as my eye keeps getting drawn there but thats just me!! Might look good as mono!

Nicely seen and captured!!

Craig
www.craigchurchill.co.uk Have a great New Year!!!

Hey Craig

I agree with CC about the blue strip along the top and I definitely think that you're right about leaving the clipped birds in, an image like this would look strange if it only contained perfectly framed birds. Good stuff

Andy

Thanks for the comments Gents,here is the crop with the blue sky taken out,I feel it looks alittle 'Top' heavy

Lovely shot Craig!
Wonderful motion captured.

Greetings,

Jeroen Stel

I prefer the first one Craig - the second feels compressed to me.

I understand the comments regarding the blue, and ideally the whole bg would be the same colour, but I feel the shot needs that little extra height.

Very nice.

I love this compo Craig, it's beautiful and natural, I like them both with perhaps the edge on the first one.
Best wishes for 2010.

Works very well, like this artistic impression of nature.

First for me. Just the right shutterspeed too.

Good new year to you when it comes

Great shot Craig, I prefer the second one as the horizon puts me off the first.


liam.