indeed, wild life photography with a 52mm full-frame equivalent is challenging: one has to go low, move slowly and act fast. follow these rules and you will get decent results of photographing any animals, even on a cemetery in the middle of a metropolis like hamburg. to make things even more difficult, i neither fed the geese nor cropped the image...
btw: if you are still not sure about the necessity of a well-executed post-processing - which imho is especially necessary in cases of working under hard conditions (shooting wide opened; foggy, dull scenery; both true today) - you might be interested in the look of the result out of camera; the jpg-file straight from raw, processed in lightroom without any tweaks. it's clearly visible, that not only the white balance is far off the reality, although i intentionally exposed the image to the right. in addition, i put another version, a black and white conversion aside, which for my taste turns up a bit too harsh.
