Golden Fog

This photo was made early in the morning while the fog was still

hanging over the lake. The Great Blue Heron stands his silent vigile.

Canon D60. Canon EF 300mm 4,0 L IS lens. ISO 400.

Well done. The composition is perfect. The bird is looking into the photograph, the color, the mist...it's wonderful. Good work.

Bill this is an amazing capture.

I would have cropped it tighter--removed some of the right side. Nice image.

It's amazing you got the subject so isolated. Congrats

Beautiful. Well done.

Beautiful image and the composition works for me.

Cropping a little from the right and the bottom would bring the bird into a 1/3,1/3 position... but I think it works perfecly fine where it is!

...just an opinion

It's gorgeous, but I would prefer the bird more to the right.

Great capture! Conveys a quiet early morning mood. I agree with the above comments about the rule of thirds. Overall, very artistic.

Wonderful image -- simple composition, great mood. I agree with the above comments about cropping, and you might want to try a bit off the bottom as well, perhaps up to/through those several bright spots left of center.

A.s y.e.t., I have to see another b.e.t.t.e.r. gorgeous heron captured with such an early morning spirit. Yours is superb work, Mr. Houghton!

I like the composition of the picture. There is a feeling of quiet ...... I like the transparency of the water too.

Here's my take on how to crop it.

This is a wonderful image combining great light and visual elements. I like the original crop...gives the feeling of depth and mysticism.

Very Beautiful

excellent!

 

technical question: whats your insect repellent? :-P

 

I disagree with the suggestions for cropping in order to bring the bird more into alignment with the rule of thirds. You lose too much of the dark bank on the right. Although I lack the technical vocabulary to explain why, the image has more power as-is. IMHO.

I wouldn't crop it either. I think that the right and left sides help give a sense of the isolation of the heron in the landscape. There is too much slavish devotion to the "rule of thirds". IMHO, that's a rule that is made to be broken as often as possible.

Maybe the better question is, could this image have been better framed to begin with. If you want to emphasize space, don't use the bird to cut the space in half, but instead provide more of it to the left.

beautiful picture, i liked the original one, too. a dreamy scene... congratulations.

perfect.

I like both the cropped and original versions. I think the question is, what are you showing? The space, or the bird? Did you alter the color at all, or is this what you saw? Beautiful moody picture!

This really caught my attention. It doesn't need any cropping at all, but I had the thought that cropping it on the left, making it square, would have the interesting effect of emphasizing the shape of the outcropping, because it would more explicitly contrast the two halves of the image, with the bird marking a sort of fulcrum in the center.