July 2010 -- FULL FAMILY GROUP OF MUTE SWANS

How I Did it -  A friend told me about a new family of MUTE SWANS down at Bayfront Park thus I went down to explore with my Pentax *ist DL2 with the Pentax 50-200 mm.

They where quite close to a deck outside thus waited for them to some swimming out and instead of spending hours removing trash etc out Bay I just cropped the illustration and converted from the RAW captured to JPEG and resized to 600 x ?  As I was taking aim to keep their off spring in focus.

COMMENTS:
 

Neal R Thompson MD	Nice capture with some interest.  The highlights seem a bit burned out on my monitor and I wonder if a Polaroid filter might have cut down reflection some and made the water in better contrast.
Dennis Hirning, PPSA	The waves add interest to the water. Too bad you couldn't have gotten the deck out of the frame and still kept the reflections of the birds. I am not sure what the dark like is on the left adult but it could probably have been clones out.
Maria Drumm	Nice family shot. Not sure if the white on the feathers are burned out. I cannot tell on my computer. The composition, reflections and water create a lot of movement. I like the horizontal treatment.
Sol Blechman	Interesting balance with an adults on each end.  Was there any more detail in the whites that you could bring out?
Shahron Williams von Rooij	The sun reflecting on the birds is making them a bit hot, particularly the swan on the left. The movement and color of the water is good, though.
Mohamed Terzaki	It’s obvious that you find yourself  best in bird’s photography. This is a nice shoot of a nice family.

Member Bio

Timothy D. Morton - Biography I have been interested in photography since the late 1970's and got seriously into it following graduation from George Brown College in 1987, when I was given a state of the art auto-focus SLR Minolta as a graduation present. Getting tired of film and flatbed scanners in July 2006 - I purchase a Pentax *DSL2 with their 18-55 mm and 50-200 mm lenses and as they are 52 MM I am able to still use some of my old filters / attachments for it, as I was able to shared my Minolta equipment with a friend.    I have the ART PHOTOGRAPHY CERTIFICATE and APPLIED PHOTOGRAPHY CERTIFICATE from Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology in Hamilton, Ontario. I was not as fast as a RABBIT completing the programmes as I started them in Spring 1988 term and didn't finish them until December 2007 and May 2008.