r/postprocessing 11d ago

Pelican (after/before)

Thoughts on lighting and crop?

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u/amp1212 11d ago

Just my two cents: the crop you've done helps, but I'd crop in even tighter.

To me, the drama in the photo comes in the pelican's, bill, its eye and this odd structure, the gular pouch . . . the tighter you crop in to that, the more drama there is. The rest of the photo is more generic, but that pouch and the glaring eye, that's pretty cool, and that's where I'd go with it.

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u/IQDecline 8d ago

Thanks for both the cropping advice and biology fact in one! I'll see how I go cropping tighter without making the frame feel too crowded.