Here's an image from my recent visit to the Houston Zoo. I was drawn to the shape of the bird's neck, and that interesting yellow eye!Using a 200 mm telephoto lens stopped down to an aperture of f/2.8 to produce a very narrow depth of field, and using my tripod, I focused carefully on that eye and tried to leave the busy background as simple and out of focus as I could.
I cropped the image to draw attention to that primitive-looking yellow eye, by placing it at the upper right third of the image and by using leading lines in the background and that beautiful "S" curve of the neck.
I also tried to use the negative space shapes around the bird to provide some balance to the overall composition.
-CG TTL
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