I took these photos while I was on February vacation in Florida. I took over 400+ photos on the trip and these were among my favorite perspective type bird type-portraits/landscape photos. In the top photo I like the lighting in the photo because the seagull is well light and not too overexposed by direct sunlight. I like how his white feathers and grey feathers contrast well with the tan sand below him. I also like how the sunlight is coming from the left frame of the photo because it pushes all of the light and shadows to the right direction of the photo. I also like how his feet, beak and yellow eyes complement with each other because it makes the top photo look interesting to look at. I think with his bright yellow colored feet really gets your attention because of its vibrance of color. I think with the seagull and the closest sand in the foreground and middle ground in focus brings your eyes into the photo rather than away from the photo, which makes the photo important. I also like the cast of shadows because it adds a nice contrast of lights and darks to the full photo. I also like how the tip of his beak being black complements with the black feathers of his tail and wings. I think with having his eyes in almost complete focus makes this photo very important in a somewhat bird portrait themed photo. I also like how he is positioned because he is turned at a slightly curved position. I also like the many footprints in the sand around the seagull on the top photo because the footprints are drawing an imaginary line towards the direction where his beak is pointing because it adds a nice perspective to this photo. It also makes the essence of the photo look smooth and interesting. The only thing I wish I could have changed in the top photo would have to not partially cut off the tail of the seagull because it is just slightly cut off by accident.
In the bottom photo I took this photo crouched down low on a sand eroded dune. I crouched low so I could get the seagull at a mounted-like perspective for the seagull. I like how the main focus of the photo is in the very middle ground because it draws your eyes directly to the center line of the rule of thirds. I like how the front foreground is completely blurry while the seagull and the mound of sand around the seagull is perched on is in total focus because it makes the perspective of the photo interesting and different. I also like how there is a little slope on the line where the seagull is mounted on because it brings your eyes over to the left frame of the photo a little bit. I also like the variety of different color tones of the sand because it adds variety and contrast to the photo. I like how the mound where the seagull is on is right on the middle of the photo because it makes the photo stand out like a landscape perspective. I like how the seagulls grey feathers look very different in shades of grey than the seagull in the top photo because it contrasts well and makes good differences. I also like how the seagull's yellowish colored feet, beak, and eyes contrast with the green and reddish brown wild sea grass plants in the background of the photo because it adds variety to the photo. I also like that the photo is lined up straight because it doesn't throw off the orientation of the photo at all. I also like how the imaginary straight line of sea grass is parallel to the imaginary line of the middle of the seagulls body and the line where the seagulls beak is aligned is also parallel because it makes the perspective of the photo nice. I took these photos on my Nikon D3200 with natural lighting, without flash, using auto focus settings and auto iso speeds.
I like both of these two photos. I noticed that you lowered the camera to focus on the seagull, which is the best way to take photo on small animals, gives people a more close and natural perspective. A little problem on the first one is that the focus is not on the eye of the seagull but on the sand. The depth of field is too shallow to give a clear view on the eye. You can narrow the lens aperture to avoid that.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your feedback, I agree with you that taking a photo of smaller animals at a lower angle makes a better photo because it changes the perspective of the bird and makes them look closer and appear less smaller. I also agree with you that the eyes seem to be a little bit not in focus but actually are in focus but because of an error the eyes appear to be slightly fuzzy and hazy. I don't agree with that with the shallow depth of field you can't get a totally complete view of the eyes because the eyes are almost completely focused. I agree that narrowing the aperture of the lens can avoid some problems with the focus but it didn't seem to affect it too badly because it wasn't too significant. Next time I'll make sure to take it a bit more closer in the top photo to get the eyes in total focus. Thanks for your feedback, I'll make a note of what suggestions to do next time I take photos of birds again in the future.
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