P-A. Fortin
07-12-2012, 07:26 PM
[First image posted out of the confort of ETL :eek3:]
Taken during a very short trip (5 hours) to Santee Lakes, CA last December. I had only 7 shots left on my card when I saw this male diving in and out not too far. I knew it was just a matter of time before he would flap its wings, so I layed down on the ground and waited. And waiting I did: it took at least over 10 minutes before I got what I was waiting for. I had my elbows in pebbles, bleeding a bit, and I was pretty sure that Murphy's Law would strike again and that the bird would probably indeed flap its wings, at a bad angle and 100ft away from where I was.
For once I'm glad I was wrong. Plus thanks to this image, I really discovered the benefits of lying on the ground. Definitely painful, definitely worth it.
Canon 60D, 100-400L @ 400mm, ISO 500, 1/2000, f/5.6, manual, handheld, no flash. Cropped at about 70% for composition (the bird was way too centered in the original image).
Added a bit of saturation in LR. NR and sharpening in CS5.
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Taken during a very short trip (5 hours) to Santee Lakes, CA last December. I had only 7 shots left on my card when I saw this male diving in and out not too far. I knew it was just a matter of time before he would flap its wings, so I layed down on the ground and waited. And waiting I did: it took at least over 10 minutes before I got what I was waiting for. I had my elbows in pebbles, bleeding a bit, and I was pretty sure that Murphy's Law would strike again and that the bird would probably indeed flap its wings, at a bad angle and 100ft away from where I was.
For once I'm glad I was wrong. Plus thanks to this image, I really discovered the benefits of lying on the ground. Definitely painful, definitely worth it.
Canon 60D, 100-400L @ 400mm, ISO 500, 1/2000, f/5.6, manual, handheld, no flash. Cropped at about 70% for composition (the bird was way too centered in the original image).
Added a bit of saturation in LR. NR and sharpening in CS5.
115573