Canada Goose

Gallery: AvianPosted December 24, 2014158 views6 comments

December 24, 2014 at San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary in Irvine, California. While set up for Grebe shots on the pond, a flock of Canada Geese swam into the area. A short while later that was a huge clatter when they all took off at once. I snapped off a couple dozen shots and this is one of them.

Nikon D4 Nikkor 600mm 1.4TC 850mm ISO320 1/1600 f/9 RAW White balance auto Processed in Lightroom, PhotoshopCC2014, NIK and TK.

Your comments are appreciated.

Comments

6 comments

Comment posted by Scott Frye on December 24, 2014 at 8:32 PM

Good action and I like the slight look back from the goose -- looks like it could use some straightening if you have the room on the right

Registered on February 3, 2007, 387 Posts, 1136 Comments

Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on December 25, 2014 at 12:13 PM

Good stop in the action Patrick. I agree about the straitening, but what stands out more to me is the left side of the frame. I appears you may have added canvas on the left or cloned one or more items (not sure which one), but there seems to be a few repeated patterns and a slight focus, color and brightness difference on the left side.

Registered on June 19, 2008, 1005 Posts, 8028 Comments

Comment posted by Patrick O'Healy on December 25, 2014 at 12:34 PM

Kurt, you astutely caught the fact that I cloned other geese out. Need to work it over. Thanks for helping me to know what matters.

Registered on March 13, 2011, 326 Posts, 1679 Comments

Comment posted by Charles Gangas on December 25, 2014 at 1:38 PM

Nice stop action takeoff shot Patrick. I agree with the others on the need to straighten the scene, and I would be tempted to try the Content Aware tool in CC to smooth out the area where the cloning was applied, I've had good luck with that tool on uniformed areas of an image.

Merry Christmas!

Registered on August 12, 2009, 544 Posts, 2414 Comments

Comment posted by Patrick O'Healy on December 26, 2014 at 10:03 PM

Re-post based on the constructive comments.

Registered on March 13, 2011, 326 Posts, 1679 Comments

Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on December 27, 2014 at 1:20 AM

The repost is good. The leveling strengthens the action, I think. This isn't just for you, Patrick, but I urge everyone to describe cloning out elements of the photo where it has been done.

Registered on August 28, 2006, 1240 Posts, 8506 Comments