How often have you been told (or read) that you need to fill the frame with your primary subject? If you photograph wildlife as I do, you know that it is rare that you have the opportunity to “fill the frame,” especially when your subject is moving.
I was a little shocked when I first looked at this image of a Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)—not only had I filled the frame, but I had managed to compose it pretty well. Yes, this is an uncropped image of a flying goose. I was awfully lucky to get this shot and I know that several of the images in the burst I took featured cutoff bodies or heads.
Now if I could just get a raptor to fly by this closely…
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What a fantastic shot. You are really getting good at this!
Thanks, Sue. Really good luck and improving skills helped in this case.
Very well caught
nice photo!
Uncropped even! I have a sense the raptors are coming …
I ,may need a bigger lens for them (30mm is not enough), but there’s hope. Thanks for the continuing encouragement, Lyle.
Excellent shot, an osprey would be nice..;-)
An osprey, a hawk, an eagle, an owl–any of them would do. 🙂
That’s an excellent shot-even the lighting was near perfect.
Thanks. Sue from Backyard Biology even managed to improve the shot by tweaking a few settings in Lightroom. (I might go back and play around with the image a bit more myself). The lighting was really good and I even had to pull back on my zoom lens to fit the goose in–I shot at 225mm on a lens that goes out to 300mm.