Adubin
Loc: Indialantic, Florida
This past week I went to the Viera Wetlands to photograph Great Blue Herons in flight.
For the Tech Geeks -
A Nikon D300S with a Nikon 70-200mm f-2.8 VR lens and a 1.4X Nikon Teleconverter was used to capture all these images. I used Lightroom 3 to do all my post processing.
I would appreciate your feedback and critique on these photos.
Coming into nest
Ready for landing
Just a Flight photo
Adubin wrote:
This past week I went to the Viera Wetlands to photograph Great Blue Herons in flight.
For the Tech Geeks -
A Nikon D300S with a Nikon 70-200mm f-2.8 VR lens and a 1.4X Nikon Teleconverter was used to capture all these images. I used Lightroom 3 to do all my post processing.
I would appreciate your feedback and critique on these photos.
Arnold,
I think they are all great. I especially like the second one. Lighting is good in all three and the framing is good also, especially the first one. The only think I don't care for is the bottom left corner in the first one. It looks like you were cropping something out of that corner by mirroring that part of the nest. The symmetry of it makes it look like one of those African masks, I can see the eyes nose and mouth, and now that I've seen it it keeps drawing my eye from an otherwise fantastic shot. You might want to fiddle with that corner some. Good shooting, keep it up! :thumbup:
John
Adubin
Loc: Indialantic, Florida
Gregory, Thanks for your comment, Arnold
gregoryd45 wrote:
Adubin wrote:
This past week I went to the Viera Wetlands to photograph Great Blue Herons in flight.
For the Tech Geeks -
A Nikon D300S with a Nikon 70-200mm f-2.8 VR lens and a 1.4X Nikon Teleconverter was used to capture all these images. I used Lightroom 3 to do all my post processing.
I would appreciate your feedback and critique on these photos.
Great shots, Arnold
Beautiful Shots! I think I'm jealous.
Adubin
Loc: Indialantic, Florida
Nikon John, Thank you very much for taking your time a really examining and critiquing my photos. I really appreciate your feedback. Arnold
NikonJohn wrote:
Adubin wrote:
This past week I went to the Viera Wetlands to photograph Great Blue Herons in flight.
For the Tech Geeks -
A Nikon D300S with a Nikon 70-200mm f-2.8 VR lens and a 1.4X Nikon Teleconverter was used to capture all these images. I used Lightroom 3 to do all my post processing.
I would appreciate your feedback and critique on these photos.
Arnold,
I think they are all great. I especially like the second one. Lighting is good in all three and the framing is good also, especially the first one. The only think I don't care for is the bottom left corner in the first one. It looks like you were cropping something out of that corner by mirroring that part of the nest. The symmetry of it makes it look like one of those African masks, I can see the eyes nose and mouth, and now that I've seen it it keeps drawing my eye from an otherwise fantastic shot. You might want to fiddle with that corner some. Good shooting, keep it up! :thumbup:
John
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Adubin
Loc: Indialantic, Florida
Shane, Thank for your comments. Arnold
Shane T wrote:
Beautiful Shots! I think I'm jealous.
Arnold these are all technically terrific, clear sharp focus and nice light and wing position etc.
I like #1 the best since it shows not just action but interaction.
The other two are very nice flight shots, and again are technically fine.
For myself I try to avoid shooting open blue sky flights.
Sometimes with birds like eagles and ospreys it can't be helped as they are often up high.
But for birds like GBHs which often fly low, it is generally more pleasing visually to capture them flying across some background which provides interest.
Trees, water, green marsh grass, brown marsh grass, anything the will provide some OOF background color will almost always look better then an open blue (or worse yet grey) sky.
Hope this makes sense.
Adubin
Loc: Indialantic, Florida
Swamp Gator, Thank you very much for your comments. I will post GBH photo with some BG to see what you think of that one. Arnold
Swamp Gator wrote:
Arnold these are all technically terrific, clear sharp focus and nice light and wing position etc.
I like #1 the best since it shows not just action but interaction.
The other two are very nice flight shots, and again are technically fine.
For myself I try to avoid shooting open blue sky flights.
Sometimes with birds like eagles and ospreys it can't be helped as they are often up high.
But for birds like GBHs which often fly low, it is generally more pleasing visually to capture them flying across some background which provides interest.
Trees, water, green marsh grass, brown marsh grass, anything the will provide some OOF background color will almost always look better then an open blue (or worse yet grey) sky.
Hope this makes sense.
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GBH with BG
Adubin
Loc: Indialantic, Florida
John, I fiddle with the photo a little. Do you like this one better? Arnold
NikonJohn wrote:
Adubin wrote:
This past week I went to the Viera Wetlands to photograph Great Blue Herons in flight.
For the Tech Geeks -
A Nikon D300S with a Nikon 70-200mm f-2.8 VR lens and a 1.4X Nikon Teleconverter was used to capture all these images. I used Lightroom 3 to do all my post processing.
I would appreciate your feedback and critique on these photos.
Arnold,
I think they are all great. I especially like the second one. Lighting is good in all three and the framing is good also, especially the first one. The only think I don't care for is the bottom left corner in the first one. It looks like you were cropping something out of that corner by mirroring that part of the nest. The symmetry of it makes it look like one of those African masks, I can see the eyes nose and mouth, and now that I've seen it it keeps drawing my eye from an otherwise fantastic shot. You might want to fiddle with that corner some. Good shooting, keep it up! :thumbup:
John
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Redo of the Original Photo I Posted on This Thread
Adubin wrote:
John, I fiddle with the photo a little. Do you like this one better? Arnold
NikonJohn wrote:
Adubin wrote:
This past week I went to the Viera Wetlands to photograph Great Blue Herons in flight.
For the Tech Geeks -
A Nikon D300S with a Nikon 70-200mm f-2.8 VR lens and a 1.4X Nikon Teleconverter was used to capture all these images. I used Lightroom 3 to do all my post processing.
I would appreciate your feedback and critique on these photos.
Arnold,
I think they are all great. I especially like the second one. Lighting is good in all three and the framing is good also, especially the first one. The only think I don't care for is the bottom left corner in the first one. It looks like you were cropping something out of that corner by mirroring that part of the nest. The symmetry of it makes it look like one of those African masks, I can see the eyes nose and mouth, and now that I've seen it it keeps drawing my eye from an otherwise fantastic shot. You might want to fiddle with that corner some. Good shooting, keep it up! :thumbup:
John
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Yes! Looks much better to me. ;)
I also like the one you posted for Swamp Gator, great flight shot. Have a great week, :thumbup:
John
These are absolutely fantastic!! All of them!!
Adubin
Loc: Indialantic, Florida
Thanks, For your reply, Arnold
NikonJohn wrote:
Adubin wrote:
John, I fiddle with the photo a little. Do you like this one better? Arnold
NikonJohn wrote:
Adubin wrote:
This past week I went to the Viera Wetlands to photograph Great Blue Herons in flight.
For the Tech Geeks -
A Nikon D300S with a Nikon 70-200mm f-2.8 VR lens and a 1.4X Nikon Teleconverter was used to capture all these images. I used Lightroom 3 to do all my post processing.
I would appreciate your feedback and critique on these photos.
Arnold,
I think they are all great. I especially like the second one. Lighting is good in all three and the framing is good also, especially the first one. The only think I don't care for is the bottom left corner in the first one. It looks like you were cropping something out of that corner by mirroring that part of the nest. The symmetry of it makes it look like one of those African masks, I can see the eyes nose and mouth, and now that I've seen it it keeps drawing my eye from an otherwise fantastic shot. You might want to fiddle with that corner some. Good shooting, keep it up! :thumbup:
John
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Yes! Looks much better to me. ;)
I also like the one you posted for Swamp Gator, great flight shot. Have a great week, :thumbup:
John
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Adubin
Loc: Indialantic, Florida
Molly, Thank you very much for your compliments for these photos. Arnold
mollymolly wrote:
These are absolutely fantastic!! All of them!!
Adubin wrote:
Swamp Gator, Thank you very much for your comments. I will post GBH photo with some BG to see what you think of that one. Arnold
Ok Arnold, now you are cookin'! That's the idea!
Not only do I feel that having some sort of background other then blue sky makes the image more visually appealing, it's also nice to see some of the environment the bird operates in.
Besides, everybody already knows what a blue sky looks like. So why not show some of the local area and habitat in the photo whenever possible? Make it different, make it stand out.
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