Angelic Snow Goose

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I made this at Middle Creek in soft afternoon light. In the BG is a hill.

http://www.pbase.com/axelhi/image/123208459/original.jpg

1D4, 500f4, 1.4x, 1/1250s, f/7.1, ISO 400, manual exposure

[Kiran Poonacha]

Loved the wing posi, nicely exposed and the BG works well, I dont know if the head without the wing merge would look better..

[Ilija Dukovski]

Great light and the feel of transparency, especially the tail,
makes it really good.

[Stu Bowie]

With the angle of his head, you can see him looking where to land. The soft light helps with the exposure on the whites, ( not that you ever have a problem sorting them out.) Clever title to suit the landing posture. The goose pops nicely from the BG too.

[Markus Jais]

Axel, your goose shots continue to be awesome. I like this one a lot. Great light, wing pose and sharpness.

Markus

[Harold Davis]

you're killing me with these guys!! did you flash any at all? the pose is angelic and fantastic. nice work!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

you're killing me with these guys!! did you flash any at all? the pose is angelic and fantastic. nice work!

Thanks, Harold! I didn't use flash, just Viveza in postprocessing.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Axel, really liked the comp here. Whites are good as always and that BG keeps getting better :-)

[Steve Canuel]

Great pose. BG looks good with the bird. I really like the backlit tail.

[RakeshDhareshwar]

Love the pose and the BG . The whites look stiking against the BG .

[Arthur Morris]

BKGR is killer sweet as is the light. Kiran mentioned the head/wing/body merge. A bit off the bottom would work for me. All in all very well done as expected.