So I went down to the local river and I spotted a total of three goose families. This is one of the closeups of these really adorable chicks.
Any input of how to improve this picture?
(Also wenn I open this in Capture One the blacks are way less crushed, any idea how to fix this?)
Great shot! For CC I kind of wish that forth chick, the one behind the front and in front of the third one back wasn't there or was positioned a little differently. I just clutters it up a little. Not really anything you could have controlled though. Except maybe waiting to see if they moved but I'm sure you were pressed for time until Momma came back or after you. I wouldn't mind a little more color in the background either, maybe a little less flash, but the black does contrast well with the yellow as is. Overall a very solid to excellent shot as is and much better than anything I've ever captured of baby geese. Parents usually chase me off before I could even atempt a shot like this. How tele of a shot is this and did you have to hide in a blind?
Thank you for the feedback.
I think it shouldn't be to hard to make that one chick just black and fade in the background, I'll try that, but i suspect that the picture gets quite left heavy.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by flash tbh. =D
This is all natural light or is there something else that i called flash ( I really don't know)?
To how I got to the picture, I have a 50-200mm on Apsc at 200mm F9. Wearing just my outdoor clothes and hit the ground robbing my way closer to the "nest". The parents are actually just outside the frame to the left and right.
They were looking at me very closely but since none of them stood up or hissed at me I was no threat to them ( I as far as I could tell).
Thanks for the info. I thought the black background was from a flash overpowering the sun. Did you darken it or was it shadows? Are there three or four chicks? To me there looks to be four. I like having one on the left and one on the right, but it looks like there are two on the left but the middle one gets lost between the main one and the rear left one. You must be better at approaching them than me. They usually start honking at me when I'm just shooting bugs 30 feet from them.
I did not specifically darken the background it was already quite dark due to deep shadows from some trees. I can see how it would look like a flash though.
I adjusted the shadow slider and only did a minor touch up in general, mainly burning some stones.
Yes there are 4 chicks and I can see how the middle one gets lost a bit.
Well I live in bigger city so they are probably more used to people in general, I think this was from about 3 meters distance to the chicks.