Coot Family

Discussion

5 replies

Posted by James Blair on May 15, 2010 at 2:57 AM

D300s
70-200VR
200mm
1/640, F8
80% original size (is that 80% crop or 20% crop??)
Slight sharpening and saturation increase on Aperture
Have been a passenger on this site for some time, love the pictures posted and the critiques are very informative. Time to put my toes in the water so looking forward to any comments - good or bad.

PS - any recommendations for Mac programme to compliment Aperture as whilst I find this very easy to use it appears to have limited capacity to resize pictures.

Regards to all,

James

Posted by Justin on May 15, 2010 at 3:15 AM

Hi and welcome to the forum.
A nice first post showing the family group of Moorhen's.
The blue sky works well here in adding a welcome splash of colour to the water.

Posted by Rene de Heer on May 15, 2010 at 7:16 AM

Welcome and a nice first image on display here! Maybe a lower point of view could improve the image?
Rene de Heer

Posted by Bertl Menegoni on May 15, 2010 at 9:42 AM

Hi James,
welcome to the forum.
Very nice first post. I like the composition, the head turn of mother Coot
to the young. Good timing and good eye.

Bertl

Posted by Andy Shepherd on May 15, 2010 at 1:33 PM

Welcome to the forum James and a very nice opening shot.

Andy...

Posted by James Blair on May 15, 2010 at 2:04 PM

Thanks for the comments. I must point out that this is not my first post as I posted a couple of pics about three years ago and soon realised that they were not up to the high standard of the forum. However viewing the posts of others and their attached critiques has helped (hopefully) improve my technical abilities and I will try and get some more pics posted soon.