Black Swan.

[lhosphotography]

Ive taken into acount some of the advice I received on my Peacock image, It was a great help.

What do you think of this lovely Black Swan..?? Have I nailed this shot..?

Look forward to your comments.

[u666u]

OK I will be the first to critque this. WHAT happened to the background!!

[Mad Aussie]

The background ... is water

Simple composition which works, eye is nice and bright ... I like that.

The photo doesn't appear to be as sharp as it could be. This may be because it's a large image and attached here at ph.ca. Photos over 250 kb in size are automatically compressed which affects the sharpness.

The beak looks too red to me, I think you over-saturated that a bit much.

The feathers down the swans back have a blue cast. It appears that you may have lightened this area too much maybe?

[MoinMoin]

I like the perspective here very much and the ruffeled feathers - but as MA already said: A bit more sharpness would be better.

[Wicked Dark]

I think the water bg is great, but agree that because the subject appears to be the ruffled feathers, they need to be in focus. Feather detail is one of the things that makes good bird photography stand out. For the reasons why I don't do bird photography myself, check this thread -

Captured in 20 minutes - Digital Grin Photography Forum

[Marko]

This is a good shot, and I like it but no nailing here unfortunately...it's way too soft all over to be 'nailed'. I agree on the beak colour - looks oversaturated to my eye. Keep playing though....bird photography is extremely difficult.