B&W Dove

[kavehfa]

I've taken this photo with Canon 40d
lens: 50mm
this photo has changed the way I looked at photography.
what u think?

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[Godfather25]

that's a very cool shot, kind of looks like the bird just came out of nowhere. I like it a lot, if I was to say anything to critique the photo, I would have like to see the bird a little closer, or little more of a head on view. But obviously you can't really help that, and it looks great anyways. Good shot.

[Ron Kruger]

I'm impressed, not just because catching any bird in flight is very difficult, but that a dove is the hardest of all. They fly at up to 60 mph and never glide, so their wing movements rapid. You must have IS and used a fairly fast shutter speed. And with a 50mm, it must have been very close. I think you were both good and lucky.
Try cropping slightly from the left.

[Frog]

Since you used a 50mm, I'm thinking you have done some serious cropping or got really lucky to have it fly so close.
What about the picture has changed how you look at photography?

[Shebang]

What a shot! To me, this is rich in symbolism - the angelic arch of the wings, the light on the bird of peace surrounded by darkness, the high contrast of light and dark found on one creature...I could go on...

I could see this having potential as a greeting card I would buy.

I'm curious as well -- what has changed in your thinking?

[kavehfa]

I was a student of artistic photography and I was assigned to photograph the Wind, I was frustrated because you can't photograph what you can't see so first i tried to photograph a girl with long hairs in wind (see the collection: http://www.kstudioworks.com/page.asp?id=66).
One day i was out with my friends in nature and I saw some doves flying, so without having time to even adjust the camera and think i just took 3 shots. 3 days later when I was reviewing my photos I saw this picture...
My teacher approved this photo only as Wind.
It made me to believe there is an absolute moment of photography and when thinking stops true Art begins.