Hi Gloria,
This is a good “moment in time”, but despite the fact that you made this image using a telephoto lens, I cannot help but feel it was made with a fisheye lens.
The main problem is your rather heavy use of the vignette.
I quite often use a vignette on my own photographs, in fact, as a young photographer learning to print in the darkroom, we were regularly taught to add about 10% exposure to the edges of a print. As they say though, “everything in moderation”.
The rather dark vignette has created the circular sensation that we would normally associate with a fisheye lens, and this has been compounded by the roundness of the bird’s wings as well as the swirl of the clouds in the sky.
In the example below I have opened the image in Photoshop and then used the Lens Correction tool to lighten the vignette again. I have also adjusted the Canvas Size to create more room for the sky and then cloned out that branch in the far right of the frame.
Now I feel more human looking at this photo, and a little less like a fish about to be gobbled up!
Cheers, Anthony.
p>White Faced Crane - Image Doctor's edited version
