A Few Birds Ready For Critiquing

[GoinCarCrazy]

Hi all. Just wanted to throw these up to hear anything anyone has to say about them, especially any suggestions I can keep in mind for future outings. Thanks!


1. Anhinga


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3470/3994629748_41f62cfeab_b.jpg





2. Royal Tern in flight


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2587/3994608852_8fc0623e88_b.jpg





3. Red Shouldered Hawk


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3477/3993631783_e4fb3472e8_b.jpg





4. Turkey Vulture


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3467/3933191848_867c7bb57f_b.jpg

[Daniel Browning]

Fantastic work. The subjects are all very interesting, and the compositions hold my attention. I like the light in all, but perhaps the shadows on the last one are a little too dramatic for my taste. The hawk is my favorite, though it might be a little more saturated than I normally like. I wonder if cropping the top of the Royal Tern image a little more and going with a 16:9 or 2:1 aspect ratio would be an improvement?


Nice work!

[GoinCarCrazy]

Thanks. I might try doing that to the Royal Tern pic. I was wondering if there was another crop that would help that pic a bit!


As far as the vulture goes, I agree that it is a bit dark. The sun was unfortunately overhead so no matter what I did, I was always in the shadow [:(]


I'm not happy with the contrast on the Hawk pic. He flew himself up into a shadowy tree with the little spots of light coming through and shining on him and the branch, so evening out the tones was a pain and I'm still probably going to change some things...oh well.


Thanks for the critique! Very good advice!

[Fast Glass]

IthinkHawk pic is a bit to contrasty for my taste, try re-postprocessing it in RAW with a little less contrast.

[RadicalTenth]

I would recrop the Tern. The others are very good. I love the contrast on the hawk.