Comments on: Picking Your Keepers 101… https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2016/01/30/picking-your-keepers-101/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Mon, 01 Feb 2016 21:34:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: David Pugsley https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2016/01/30/picking-your-keepers-101/comment-page-1/#comment-1730348 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 17:03:46 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=31266#comment-1730348 The shadows/plane of focus should be level assuming the beach is level.

The first part of your question is an easy call, trash #2 due to the head angle.
As for the best, hmmm, I need to bullet-point my thoughts.
– like HA of #1 due to the playful tllt towards you, but points of others surpass this
– love the tongue of #3
– prefer the raised foot of #4
– like the BG vegetation in #3

For me, if I really wanted to construct my ideal shot, I’d take the head from #3 and place it on #4. From there I’d lower the bird in the frame a bit and bring the vegetation from #3 and place it in the upper left corner for balance.

Summary: 4 as base image with the head and vegetation of 3.

A simpler final would be 4 as base image with just the vegetation from 3.

Hope that made sense. 🙂

]]> By: Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2016/01/30/picking-your-keepers-101/comment-page-1/#comment-1730329 Sun, 31 Jan 2016 17:41:44 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=31266#comment-1730329 In reply to Kathleen Graff.

Thanks. So San Diego, or Nickerson, or Japan or the UK 2017 🙂 a

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