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Sid Garige
03-12-2012, 07:13 PM
Ecco Pond, ENP
Canon 7D, 300mm F4
F5.6 1/640
580EX in manual mode at 1/2
Flash as main source of light to eliminate the background
stuart wanuck
03-12-2012, 07:26 PM
lovely image sid
dankearl
03-12-2012, 07:44 PM
I like the black BG, Sid, A very nice, different look to this species.
Randy Stout
03-12-2012, 07:55 PM
Sid:

Lovely studio portrait, with skillfull use of the flash.

Nice texture in feathers, exposure, sharpness.

Noteworthy that you were able to get in so close.

Cheers

Randy
Sid Garige
03-12-2012, 07:56 PM
Noteworthy that you were able to get in so close.
Randy
Florida:t3
Lorant Voros
03-12-2012, 08:00 PM
Nice portrait for sure. Great flash work and indeed you were amazingly close. Congrats.

Lorant
Charles Glatzer
03-12-2012, 08:13 PM
Sid,

It appears you have this flash thing down my friend. And, manual flash at that, :w3

Best,

Chas
Sid Garige
03-12-2012, 08:17 PM
It appears you have this flash thing down my friend. And, manual flash at that, :w3

I have to thank you for introducing us to distance scale and controlling flash distance. Great class.
Joe Senzatimore
03-12-2012, 09:37 PM
Excellent use of flash. Fine image.
Satish Ranadive
03-12-2012, 10:36 PM
Lovely portrait. Love the texture in feathers, exposure and sharpness. Beautiful colors and bg too.
Jamie Douglas
03-12-2012, 11:30 PM
Great portrait showing off some cool flash work Sid
Frank Schauf
03-13-2012, 09:27 AM
Nice composition and excellent expsoure control and sharpness.
Marina Scarr
03-13-2012, 10:10 AM
Very unique portrait, Sid! May I assume you took this during harsher light due to your flash settings? Did you create the in camera or with a little help in PP? You really have tremendous details here, and I don't remember ever seeing a spoonie beak that looked like this.
arash_hazeghi
03-13-2012, 10:21 AM
very nice Sid, you nailed it. Last time I used flash as main light I toasted the subject :D

great
Kaustubh Deshpande
03-13-2012, 12:52 PM
Sidd, good flash work of course. I liked the comp. as well...always love your tight shots. TFS.
Sid Garige
03-13-2012, 08:15 PM
Very unique portrait, Sid! May I assume you took this during harsher light due to your flash settings? Did you create the in camera or with a little help in PP? You really have tremendous details here, and I don't remember ever seeing a spoonie beak that looked like this.

Marina,
In low light conditions. Bit of levels adjustment to darken the background.
-Sid
Sidharth Kodikal
03-13-2012, 09:06 PM
Excellent execution, Sid. Absolutely love the flash work and details here.
Ofer Levy
03-14-2012, 05:52 AM
Normally I don't like a black BG but in here it works nicely.