Being Clean is Important to a Bird

Image Objective: There are hundreds of images posted each year of

the Canada goose (Branta canadensis). BEING CLEAN IS IMPORTANT TO A

BIRD is an attempt to show this bird differently. I wanted to show

the bird doing something natural in great detail in an original and

artistic way. How well did I succeed in accomplishing the Image

Objective?

Come to think of it, your detail on this one seems to be better than the colour shot. Yes, this is good!

very nice shot and great details, definetively i like your stile.

unfortunately feets are cutted off, but is a very nice shot wathever.

best regards

Bruno

A photo with character. Again, you present your subject matter very well. I really love your photos.

Great shot, Howard. The high key works very well here. I like the angle that you have, also. Much more interesting than if you had shot from the side. The texture in the feathers really stands out.

I'm still leaning with the color shot of the bird, but this one does have great detail in the feathers. The high key effect has worked miracles on the background, too.

Howard- The detail of the feathers is really amazing. The action of the bird and the angle of view is certainly unique, I like that. I like the way he fills the frame. My only complaint is the duck's bill & eye seems to get a little lost. Easily corrected. I would lighten both the bill and the eye just a bit just for delineation purposes. See attached suggestion. I did not dodge, I used a layer mask on a backround copy in screen mode, filled with black and painted with white to lighten, it saves the details. Hope you don't mind my playing.

Very nice detail, Howard. I like how you take the high-key road to bird images as well. That really individualize your work. ^_^

Nice high key effect. Would agree with Jayme's rendition in better defining the head and eye. Otherwise, good work.