... and how does that ship look the other way around?

[beykirch]

From our trip to Svalbard. The young gull was sitting on top of an iceberg we circled a couple of times.

http://www.seehase-beykirch.homepage.t-online.de/Gull_Ice.jpg

Canon EOS 5DII, 4.0/400IS DO, ISO400, f5.6, 1/1600sec, cropped to around 50%

All comments are welcome

Bernd

[Colin Driscoll]

Very comical! Lovely pastel tones there.

[Arthur Morris]

Nice use of the upper left third. A bit of a crop from the left would strenghten that a bit. Removing the blue cast is optional. Was the ice blue to start with?

[Aidan Briggs]

Good comments from above. I would add that some NR on the BG would help.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Interesting crop and pose and I like the color of the ice a lot. I would remove the color noise in the BG.

[beykirch]

Many thanks for your comments. I have now tried the Luminance and Color NR sliders in LR2.4 which helped a lot at 50/50.

The colour is as is, my only change in LR2.4 was an increase of the exposure slider of +0,56. The colour temperature is at 5700 Kelvin as chosen by the 5DII in auto WB.

Regards

Bernd

[Ramon M. Casares]

Love it, it brought a simle to my face :)
Excellent pose, nice, NICE comp and lovely mood.
Congratulaitons!