Love in High Key

[Fabs Forns]

Captured during our workshop this morning at Wako, nice to see familiar faces like Harold D, our own Gus Cobos, Mirenchu F, Michael Wolf and many others. Jackie S is here from Toronto and we are having a blast!
Against the light, cloudy, trying for something different. Cropped from horizontal. Home-made frame :)

Model: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens (mm): 600
ISO: 1000
Aperture: 6.3
Shutter: 1/640
Program: Manual
Flash manual, 0 Ev

[James Salywoda]

This is totally sweet Fabs great positioning on the Herons this is gorgeous.

[Ilija Dukovski]

Brilliant, the comp is great but the frame idea on a high-key image is very interesting.

[WIlliam Maroldo]

Fabs: the image is a masterpiece, one of your best IMO. The frame idea has a problem. I wouldn't remove it, but in addition place a 1 pixel black border around the whole image. The problem with high key images is that without such a border the image tends to merge with a light web page background color. Not a tremendous problem here, but especially with white backgrounds. regards~Bill

[Jean Chang]

What a stunning shot! The neck angles and "beak to beak" make for a magnificent pose. I love the high key.

Jean

[Marc Mol]

Agree with all above, the eye contact and color contrast are superb, well done Fabs
TFS

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

beautiful poses,eye contact,composition...moment!

[Stu Bowie]

Fabs, this is pin sharp, and love the interaction captured. Good DOF too. Well done.

[Bill Jobes]

Oh, Fabs -- this is a knockout image!

It is an instant all-time favorite for me !

I'll remember this one for a very long time. :)

[Paul Lagasi]

Beautiful....frame works...

[Joe Senzatimore]

One fine image Fabs. Love the high key look and the frame.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Interaction, sharpness, exposure control and details look very good. What I find a bit distracting is that the pieces of the neck outside the frame are not direct extensions.

[denise ippolito]

Fabs, I really like the eye contact and interaction. I think you were very successful in creating a unique image of these birds. The high-key BG and the way you chose to frame it is perfect. I love it!
I do see what Axel is referring to but it only looks like that one little piece. Sounds like you guys are having a blast!:)

[Grace Scalzo]

It's a beauty, Fabs!

[Lorant Voros]

It is very nice, Fabs. Love the high key as well and the interaction is great. I like the frame, apart from the fact that there seems to be a shift to the left with the parts under the frame. Well done.

[paul leverington]

I absolutely love this one Fabs. I think it might look good as a more vertical--either way Sweet!!

Paul

[Doug Brown]

Wonderful interaction that looks great in high key! The eye contact with both birds is terrific. I never would have thought to use a frame that's smaller than the image, but it works well for me.

[David Thomasson]

I just don't know how you catch these moments, Fabs, but you seem to have an uncanny knack for it.

The rule works nicely but seems a tad heavy to my eye. I would make it more like a hairline rule .. and maybe even pick up one of the colors from the image.

Beautiful work! :cool:

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8598/beaks.jpg

[Bill Jobes]

Nice touch, David ! :)

[Bonnie Block]

Fabulous, Fabs! I really enjoy this image. Great interaction--marvelous dof. I like the frame--and I agree with David's approach--maybe just a tad darker on his line.

[Haim Ziv]

Everything in this image are really great! Fascinating!!
I just can't understand how you get long DOF when using 600mm with only f6.3??
It's amazing to me.

[Gal Shon]

I realy love the high key here and the Interaction. beautiful work.
Regarding the frame, I think David's suggestion looks better, bit I would prefer it with no frame.

I just can't understand how you get long DOF when using 600mm with only f6.3??
It's amazing to me. <!-- / message --> The wonders of FF sensors...

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

An exquisite image Fabs. I love the interaction and like your original frame, albeit a little thinner would work better IMHO. Such a kick- a s s image. :)

[Fabs Forns]

Thank you all for your comments.

David, beautiful repost, gracias :)

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Fabs....superb comp...and I really mean it. The high key treatment works very well too.