Young Sygnet Black Necked Swan

[Dusty]

In two minds whether to take out the leaves/bush to the left. Couldn't get a clear capture of the bird. Comments please, leave in or take out. I use Aperture for PP.

[Brownbear]

Hi Dave,

I never know whether to call you Dave or Dusty?

Beautiful bird and wonderful detail. If it were my photo I would crop it in half (vertically) plus just a smidge off of the top... Which leaves just a little bit of the green reflection, and all of the beautiful bird...

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Dave,

I would crop like this;
(If you'd rather I didn't post the example cropped image in your thread, let me know and I'll remove it)



That's because I don't think the reflection is contributing much - it also has an oof red thing in front of it.

In this crop, I would remove the separate green oof foliage that is nearest the cygnet, but leave the bigger bit in the corner.

I would also spot heal to reduce some of the floating detritus on the water.


Good exposure and focus, giving a lovely texture to the feathers, well done.

Hope that helps,

[Wavelength]

I liked it; there are some elements of disturbances indeed; i liked the edit of Dave also. I too made an edit

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Regards

[Dusty]

Thanks for all your views, most welcome.

Christina, as you can see from the image I have posted I have taken on board your comment about splitting vertically and cropped some of the top off and I like the image so much better. Call me Dave.

Dave I am a sucker for reflections so I have left that in but your cropping helped me a lot.

Nandakumar a very good try to give me what I wanted but on my monitor the image is a tad to dark in tone but thank you very much.

Dave.

[Brownbear]

Hi Dave,

I think it looks wonderful and I'm glad it worked... I'm still learning to crop my own photos properly.