Adrian said:I like the first two a lot - the framing of the hawk in a natural setting is very good and the surroundings lead my eye straight in to focus on the bird. Natural colour and sharp. The closeup fox is a cracker - sharp as a tack on it's eye and a great composition with it looking out of the frame, and good use of DOF. I think I might be tempted to clone out the stalk at the bottom though. I can see the point of the third but the fox look a little lost in all that greenery, which looks a little too green to me.
EosD said:by second fox shot i mean #2 -
/strokes wine bottle....hic
IanC_UK said:Cheers CT Unfortunately its not cropped at all !
Hmmm do i risk trying to PS a bit on the right ! LOL
CT said:I wouldn't Ian, that ovehanging branch makes it well nigh impossible.
CT said:For future reference, if your using the one shot focusing mode, don't forget that once you've pressed the shutter halfway, the focus is locked until you release it and depress it again. A quick recompose to the right at that stage gets you the composition you want. You could also use the focus lock button.
Another alternative with this shot would have been to enable just the left hand focus point (out of the nine).
Bachs said:3rd one of the fox looks oversaturated and a little OOF with a distracting highlight circle at top centre but the other 2 are absolutely superb.
The later post of the otter is a stunner too :thumb:
EDIT: As I'm a lttle blurry eyed I missed the later crop/edit which is much better!
milou said:What an excellent set of shots. Foxy 1 & 5 and the otter are my faves, especially foxy1 - great focus on the eyes.
dod said:Totally agree, makes life easy whn you can just quote
CT said:Ian - wassamarrer wiv ya? :nut:
Get this pic sorted, it's the bizzo!
CT said:It's excellent as it is. Clone out that branch behind him on the left, tidy up a few of those stray foreground grasses, but don't do too much. You'll get some space on the left if you crop to 3:2 - if it's not a crop it doesn't matter anyway - he's posing perfectly.
CT said:Good job Ian! :icon_cool
Steve said:Sorry I have not comented on these earlier, been busy and missed the party but just wanted to add that they are all great :thumb:
There are a lot of the regulars here showing massive amounts of improvement in their photography of late and I am pleased to include you in that group.