John Rowell
03-01-2015, 03:51 PM
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This early morning takeoff at Ft. DeSoto went right through a group of feeding mergansers. They scattered in every direction, some diving under, some taking off and a few just sat there and watched. Cloned out a couple of the mergansers, background NR and some Nik Detail Extractor on the dark wings and hot portions of the white.
I struggled with the crop on this, thinking the pelican is too centered. I didn't want to lose all the splash behind him and didn't have any more room up front unless I add some canvas.
Tripod mounted D4, 600 mm + TC1.4, 1/3200 sec., f8, iso 1600
All comments welcome, thanks for looking.
This early morning takeoff at Ft. DeSoto went right through a group of feeding mergansers. They scattered in every direction, some diving under, some taking off and a few just sat there and watched. Cloned out a couple of the mergansers, background NR and some Nik Detail Extractor on the dark wings and hot portions of the white.
I struggled with the crop on this, thinking the pelican is too centered. I didn't want to lose all the splash behind him and didn't have any more room up front unless I add some canvas.
Tripod mounted D4, 600 mm + TC1.4, 1/3200 sec., f8, iso 1600
All comments welcome, thanks for looking.