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  • randomway
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    Is it OK to crop a bird shot like this? I’m not absolutely happy with it, but I had the 300 prime on and there was no choice. What do you think?

    Mark
    Keymaster

    I quite like it, unusual crop.
    Lovely light and super sharp with perfect DOF.

    Ali
    Participant

    Looks good to me – it’s a pity you had to crop – looks exceptionally sharp. DOF is just perfect too. Did you try flipping it so the bird is facing to the right ?
    I haven’t tried it myself – but it’s an idea :)

    Valentia
    Member

    I find it difficult to crop birds with long necks. I always have that feeling that something isn’t quite right but can never figure out what exactly it is. This gives me that same feeling but I can’t help with any useful suggestion. Ali’s idea sound interesting though.

    joe_elway
    Participant

    I think the crop is fine. Swans/herons/etc are tough to crop. The most important thing for me is to crop vertically like you’ve done. Long vertical neck = portrait for me … unless you’ve got an interesting landscape that you wish to show.

    It could just be the glare on my screen (laptop is in a sunny location) but is there a slight blowout on the head? Herons and swans are tough to expose because of the amount of white. I meter from that and sometimes even underexpose deliberately … that’s why you often find my shots of them having dark backgrounds.

    randomway
    Member

    The blown highlights are obvious, I can’t help that. I don’t like the sunny weather which we have these days.. I was praying for a nice icy rain or something, but it never came :) I think I’ve already set the exposure a bit lower at conversion, I thought, this is fairly good and the blown head is not a big deal. Tough decision. I’ll try flipping it upside down and say that it’s a bat.
    Thanks for the comments.

    Noely F
    Participant

    Thats really crisp and colourful, maybe get more of the head and neck in the crop and lose some of the chest area?

    randomway
    Member

    Ali wrote:

    Looks good to me – it’s a pity you had to crop – looks exceptionally sharp. DOF is just perfect too. Did you try flipping it so the bird is facing to the right ?
    I haven’t tried it myself – but it’s an idea :)

    I have found a shot with the bird facing to the right… the highlights are blown out a bit, but the pose is better I think.

    DenverDoll
    Participant
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