Dalmatian Pelican in the early morning light on Lake Kerkini, Greece :
DO ANY OF YOU HAVE A PREFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO IMAGES BELOW PLEASE?
This is the original full width image but had to be straightened and so became even tighter on the vertical sides. I cropped a slither off the top to de-emphasise the beak being close to the edge of frame. Even when working with a choice of two identical camera bodies (E-M1X), one mounted on a 300mm and the other on a 12-40mm, I would have missed the open beak shot while swapping cameras!
For this shot if I had my 40-150mm + 2x lens mounted on one of my bodies I would have been able to zoom back enough to capture my ideal image. However, this combo would not have been ideal for other shots on the 300mm prime benefitting from F/4.
EARLY MORNING YAWN? by
Robin Procter, on Flickr
This (below) is a cropped version of the same image to feature the open beak and be more of a portrait of the Pelican but it loses some of the nice light on the right :
EARLY MORNING YAWN? by
Robin Procter, on Flickr
Do any of you have a preference between the two images please?
[THANKS TO EVERYBODY WHO FAVES AND/OR COMMENTS ON MY PICTURES - IT IS ALWAYS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED]