Crooked leg seagull

[Benny Pan]

Took at Otago Peninsula, the Royal Albatross colony. I sneakily approached this seagull and quietly focus using Sigma 50-150 F2.8 on my Nikon D40. If you zoom in you can tell the eyes are not sharply focused. From my research Sigma AF is not quite as sophisticated as Nikon AF system. So i sharpened the eyes a bit in PP. If you notice the right leg is a bit crooked for some reasons not sure if this adds any interest to the picture.

In terms of composition do you think the seagull turned its head to a nice position? e.g. relative to its body? How about the weed in the background? Is it distracting?

And the bench? Should I have moved a bit so the bench arises from the left bottom corner rather than from the middle?

Critique hard people

[oceanillusion42]

I personally find the weed in the background to be a bit distracting. Aside from that I think the image is fine as is... I would not make the bench come from the left side of the frame as I think the current composition obeys the rule of thirds quite nicely and moving the bench would make the seagull too centered. I think its a nice shot... and you're right that foot is really odd looking

[ihsankhairir]

I agree with oceanillusion42. the out-of-focus weed does not contribute much to the picture and defeats the purpose of negative space in some ways.

[LoveDSLR]

Sample crop based on Golden Spiral.

[ihsankhairir]

Originally Posted by LoveDSLR

Sample crop based on Golden Spiral.

I see you helped remove the weed as well!

[LoveDSLR]

Originally Posted by ihsankhairir

I see you helped remove the weed as well!

I got good spotters.

[Benny Pan]

I did try using spot remover in LR3 but the result looked terrible. Since the weed is quite out of focus probably only hard-out photoshop can remove the weed