https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2011/09/14/for-your-critique-image-7-4/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2011/09/14/for-your-critique-image-7-4/comment-page-1/#comment-96187 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:09:20 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=6838#comment-96187 Beautiful, beautiful shot. And don’t you even think of removing the brownish green bands from the upper part of the background. It gives a nice sense of depth, like you can reach behind the bird. If you homogenize the colors in the background, it’ll flatten out.

]]> https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2011/09/14/for-your-critique-image-7-4/comment-page-1/#comment-96165 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:19:08 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=6838#comment-96165 Hi Artie. Wonderful pose…and dang, you NAILED the whites..great feather detail throughout. The curve of the neck, with the body outstretched…the whisps of askew feathers here and there…a lot of details that keep the eye happy, dancing through the image. I love the little water droplets between the neck and the wing on the left; but on the larger image, about 1/3 of the way in from the RHS, straight out from the bill and slightly lower is a single stray drop that draws my eye to it; I’d be tempted to clone that one out. Did I mention that you nailed the whites?

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