After this call, he went on to do his wing flapping routine but unfortunately for me there wasn't another male around to take up the challenge.
I wondered whether to apply a selective blur to the background and also had some doubts about the crop. This is a little less than full frame - perhaps 80% of the whole image - the pheasant being slightly to the left of centre in the original.
7D, 500mm
f4.5, 1/1000th, ISO 400
Thanks for looking.
Tim
Posted by Andy Shepherd on March 20, 2010 at 3:54 PM
Great pose and more room at the bottom if you have it, like it Tim.
The composition works fine for me.
As long as there's more space in front of the bird, to move into, than behind, then whether or not it's over the center line doesn't bother me in the slightest personally. Besides, I find that if the image is composed so the center line isn't crossed, it quite often means the subject is too small in the frame, at least if you're after a frame filling portrait style shot, and you have half an image with the bird in, and half an image with nothing of much interest, at least in a lot of cases.
For flight shots I think it's works better to capture the moment just before the bird crosses in front of you, but not necessarily for portraits.
Anyway, this is a moment well caught.
Posted by David Taylor on March 20, 2010 at 6:27 PM
Excellent POV and great timing producing a fine image. A slight niggle is the vertical stem to the right that draws my eye.
Posted by Craig Jones on March 20, 2010 at 6:57 PM
Great pose captured Tim POV is spot on,really nice
Posted by Paul Rosser on March 21, 2010 at 4:51 AM
Cracking Shot!
Regards,
Paul.
Posted by Kim Connolly on March 21, 2010 at 1:12 PM
Like it very much - super pose!
Posted by Philip Newman on March 21, 2010 at 1:54 PM
Lovely strong pose and action, just looks a little desaturated in colour to me.
I see what you mean about maybe wanting to blur the bg
I like the brightness of the shot, (maybe as an antidote for my own rather dark background shots). I don't like the stems running vertically through the bg, and for me they would be enough to consign the image to the trash.
What I would take from this image though, would be the concept of bright back ground and colourfull pheasant and would try to find a suitable location where the background was further away from the subject so that you could get the blur you're after.
You're image has given me something to think about
Discussion
13 repliesI wondered whether to apply a selective blur to the background and also had some doubts about the crop. This is a little less than full frame - perhaps 80% of the whole image - the pheasant being slightly to the left of centre in the original.
7D, 500mm
f4.5, 1/1000th, ISO 400
Thanks for looking.
Tim
Great pose and more room at the bottom if you have it, like it Tim.
Andy...
As long as there's more space in front of the bird, to move into, than behind, then whether or not it's over the center line doesn't bother me in the slightest personally. Besides, I find that if the image is composed so the center line isn't crossed, it quite often means the subject is too small in the frame, at least if you're after a frame filling portrait style shot, and you have half an image with the bird in, and half an image with nothing of much interest, at least in a lot of cases.
For flight shots I think it's works better to capture the moment just before the bird crosses in front of you, but not necessarily for portraits.
Anyway, this is a moment well caught.
Regards,
Paul.
I like the brightness of the shot, (maybe as an antidote for my own rather dark background shots). I don't like the stems running vertically through the bg, and for me they would be enough to consign the image to the trash.
What I would take from this image though, would be the concept of bright back ground and colourfull pheasant and would try to find a suitable location where the background was further away from the subject so that you could get the blur you're after.
You're image has given me something to think about
Matt