Comments on: Nobody Messes With The Chicken

By: Dandelion: Full Of Possibilities « Ari Takes Pictures

Dandelion: Full Of Possibilities « Ari Takes Pictures — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:51:57 +0000

[...] the grass just dissolves into a sheet of green. As one reader with much better skills than I have said, the rule for wildlife photography is to nail the focus on the eyes. I guess my correlary is when [...]

By: Shoshi

Shoshi — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:16:44 +0000

Heh. I’d bet on him in a fight.

By: kap0w

kap0w — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:08:56 +0000

In this case, chicken did all the work.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:07:10 +0000

The first “rule” of wildlife photography is also “nail the focus on the eye.” Sure, this can be broken, but it’s especially useful for wildlife/animal portraits. It engages the viewer with the photo subject, and in this case, that is a chicken. She is looking threateningly at YOU, the VIEWER, which really makes the shot work. If she was looking somewhere else, the photo wouldn’t be nearly as powerful.