gail bisson
11-01-2015, 09:50 AM
There are lots of things wrong with this picture but I like it for the memories.
While in Nome, we took a small boat out to Sledge island which is about an hour long trip. We thought we would be able to land on this small rocky outcrop but pack ice had completely surrounded the island.
3 of us decided to get off the boat and climb onto the pack ice with all our gear. Now that I think about it, it was a really dangerous thing to do but thankfully we had no problems and wandered about the ice for about 2 hours. Very slippery and lots of jumping from ice chunk to ice chunk. We were really lucky the ice pack did not move while we were on it.
It was worth it to see 3 lifers for me- horned and tufted puffin and emperor goose. Shooting conditions were very difficult and it was almost impossible to bet the sun behind us. Didn't get anything award winning but still love the images I got.
Canon 1DX 600mm and 1.4x ISO 800 F 10 SS 1/1000
PP Crop, levels, lifted the shadows,NR to BG, levels, DE at 5% on the belly of RH bird and 1% to the rest of the birds.
Comments and critiques always appreciated and learned from with thanks,
Gail
While in Nome, we took a small boat out to Sledge island which is about an hour long trip. We thought we would be able to land on this small rocky outcrop but pack ice had completely surrounded the island.
3 of us decided to get off the boat and climb onto the pack ice with all our gear. Now that I think about it, it was a really dangerous thing to do but thankfully we had no problems and wandered about the ice for about 2 hours. Very slippery and lots of jumping from ice chunk to ice chunk. We were really lucky the ice pack did not move while we were on it.
It was worth it to see 3 lifers for me- horned and tufted puffin and emperor goose. Shooting conditions were very difficult and it was almost impossible to bet the sun behind us. Didn't get anything award winning but still love the images I got.
Canon 1DX 600mm and 1.4x ISO 800 F 10 SS 1/1000
PP Crop, levels, lifted the shadows,NR to BG, levels, DE at 5% on the belly of RH bird and 1% to the rest of the birds.
Comments and critiques always appreciated and learned from with thanks,
Gail