Early riser sloshing by in a cut. The Stork right front is hanging on to a small fish. One of those days we hit the marshes early.
Images like this, showing the raw environment around subjects are some of my favorites. Though I think this should have been taken wider, a different format to show more.
Donnelley rice fields, South Carolina.
Actually, if you zoom in on the stork with a fish in his beak, it looks pretty cool with the others in the background and him with his snack.
Yeah, of course I had no idea when shooting it 🤣. Not the best light or location…but it’s a wild area and this is where they live 👍👍
I completely understand what you mean, Ted. In the beginning, with my Olympus cameras, I mostly shot in the 16:9 format because that’s what I use most on my websites. I only used the RAW file if the JPEG wasn’t good enough and needed editing.
Nowadays, I mostly shoot in RAW with my 4/3 cameras and crop the photo afterward to my liking. Of course, you lose pixels, and with that, sometimes detail and sharpness, but I have more freedom to adjust the composition.
I also sometimes discover things in photos afterward that I hadn’t noticed before—probably an age-related thing 🙂
Have a great weekend, Ted!