Out for our early morning walk, the cloudy sky a beautiful backdrop for the cactus and its residents. Just past sunrise, the light had a red tint to it. The bird, a curve-billed thrasher, I believe, was shrieking at us - I suppose we had walked too close to it's nest in the cactus- and it caught my eye.
Slight crop adjustment.
Adjust Brightness and contrast a tad.
Resize and save.
Statistics
Place: 106 out of 380 Avg (all users): 5.9515 Avg (commenters): 5.0000 Avg (participants): 5.7831 Avg (non-participants): 6.1220 Views since voting: 979 Views during voting: 226 Votes: 165 Comments: 11 Favorites: 0
First of all, CONGRATS on your new personal best score!! It always excites me to surpass old scores, even just to get a new one on my profile page. Very nice work to beat the strong work you already have there.
Camera Work/Technical: Excellent focus and nice depth of field use, as well as color use, to isolate the subject from the sky background. I see that you were down at ISO 50, but I still think I see some graininess in the sky. Perhaps just a touch of neat image or noise ninja would have cleared that up.
Lighting: Terrific, even lighting gives this one a great warmth and makes it a very appealing image. I see that you added some contrast in your post-processing. I think even a little more would have benefited it. I took the liberty to make some minor adjustments to further illustrate what I am talking about. In the image below, I added a very small curves adjustment and a little bit of neat image, as well as a border (yeah, I am on that side of the never-ending border debate). I'll gladly remove your image if you'd like me too, but here it is.
Composition/Content: Great choice of subjects and well placed to fall nicely into the rule of thirds.
My Opinion: A well-deserved new personal best. With some very minor adjustments, I think this one might have jumped that 6 hurdle. Nice work, and I look forward to more new bests from you.
Thank you for the opportunity to provide a critique on your entry,
Eric
Congrats on your new personal best, Maxine! :) It's a really nice shot. Even better, now when you look at each other and say, "remember that bird," You'll be able to go look at it again. :)
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
Photographer found comment helpful.
