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Posted by Christoph Belanger on Wed Sep 07, 2005 7:40 pm

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Mike and I were shooting at a spot where the birds were engaging in the butterfly behavior again and got a pretty nice sequence of a yellow legs fight. This one was in the middle of the sequence, when one bird was litterally standing on the other. You can't really controll the fight so you just push the trigger and hope for the best.

Please give me an honest critique of this. Does it work? I kind of like it because the attention is focused on the bird being pounded on, but it bothers me that the other bird's wing was cut off. What is your impression of this?

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by dhkaiser on Wed Sep 07, 2005 7:54 pm

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Frankly, when I first looked I did not notice the wing clip. Certainly an unusual image well exposed.

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by Christopher Dodds on Wed Sep 07, 2005 7:56 pm

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A cool shot, Christoph. Wish the upper bird had all of it's wings, but the huge bonus here is the partially submerged one!

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by Wayne Nicholas on Wed Sep 07, 2005 8:00 pm

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IMO, the missing wingtips are not even an issue. The story told by the action and the look of the grounded bird overpower any nits easily.

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by Paul Fusco on Wed Sep 07, 2005 8:04 pm

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Hi Christoph -

IMHO the action is great, however there are a couple of things that could make this better. The first and foremost is that I wish the upper bird was facing toward the camera instead of away. If it were facing toward you then the wing clip would not matter IMO. Since it is facing away then I would like to see more of the wings.

This is still a cool behavioral shot as is.

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by Heather Forcier on Wed Sep 07, 2005 10:58 pm

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I think this works because you can see the whole bird on the bottom, even the eye peering over the muck. I laughed out loud when the image came up. In a perfect world it'd be nice to have 100% of both birds, but with interaction like this it's still really cool.

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by RedBishop on Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:26 am

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Can there be better than that, yes, like every photo taken. I thin a 2cm crop at the bottom works a little better.
But as is, the story is clear and visible to the viewer and the "humiliation" look on the mud eating guy is just hilarious.
Fantastic capture !

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by Ofer Levy on Thu Sep 08, 2005 4:54 am

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The action is incredible!

I wish the wings were in the frame though. :roll:

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by mrhughj on Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:15 am

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A very powerful image as is!

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by ChrisRoss on Fri Sep 09, 2005 1:02 am

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Like it as is, you can't be overly fussy with action shots, this works because it has caught some of the peak action.

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