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For some reason this reminded me of the King of the World scene from Titanic. Taken at Barnegat Jetty on the IPT/Creative Adventure.
Canon 5D3
300 II
1/1000
f9.0
ISO 400
EC -.33
HH from jetty, cropped for comp, levels, curves, sharpened in CS6.
C&C welcome and appreciated. Thanks,
Rachel
Rachel:
This is a great pose, and yes, I can see the similarity. If the IQ will stand it, I could see a version cropped tighter, to eliminate the small rock on the lower right, with balancing crops on the other sides.
Fun! Glad you had decent weather.
Cheers
Randy
Thanks Randy, I don't think the IQ will support the suggested crop.
Wow, such an excellent pose captured, Rachel. Love the rock and water too. What is the rock covered with?
Thanks Karl, tiny mussels.
Great image Rachel. My first thought when I saw it was to eliminate the rock in the LRC. But you have answered that question. I like the water splash the duck & the water is lovely. TFS.
Hi Rachel, an opportunity well used to capture this lovely calling pose. These guys certainly have a lot of varied colours, and you have exposed him well. My first thoughts were to remove the rock in the LRC, and my version would be to just crop up from the bottom. It should hold up.
Hi Rachel,
great pose of this beauty duck. I might would take away the rock on the left hand side. Content aware or clone or somehow :bg3:
Ciao
Anette
Awesome subject pose. Actually one of the most animated poses I've seen of this species....just great.
I also think the rock in the LRC needs to go. With the high end gear you used to make this image, I'm wondering
how much of a crop this is, that you think the image won't withstand a tighter crop while maintaining IQ?
Ah Rachel - this was the shot that I missed! Great job capturing such a special moment. Beautiful shot.
Thanks everyone for all the kind comments. Here's a repost cropping out the rock in lrc. This is about a 30-40% crop which is more than I usually like to do.
Thanks again,
Rachel
very nice capture,repost is the one,loverly light,nice pose.thanks.
Repost is lovely, Rachel. You had enough IQ to keep the crop quality up. Love it.
Great pose capture Rachel!
Magnificent image of the king of Jetty.I like the composition in repost.
Love the calling pose,colors and details.I am also interested in knowing,what is this rock?
Regards,
Satish.
Thanks very much Chris, Faraaz, Mike and Satish. Satish - the rock is covered with tiny mussels.
Still kept your IQ and I like the repost better
Superb repost. Bird small in the frame works well, and his display of attitude gives this image a life of its own. Very nicely done. And the position of the wave above his head is perfect. There is one droplet of water behind his back that I'd remove as it just looks like a misplaced speck.
Excellent RP Rachel. I really like the attitude the duck shows.
Repost is a great improvement. Looks like IQ held up just fine :)
Thanks Stan, Grace and Andrew for the kind comments and suggestions. They are much appreciated.
Thanks Miguel and yes, it looks like it did hold up.
Rachel - Great shot. While I like both, I do think the repost is better. Somehow, other than Denise, I think the rest of us missed getting this shot.
Colin
I like the pose, perch and composition in the repost looks great. Well done Rachel!
Spectacular shot!
That is one great pose, great perch, and the repost is much better.
Well done.
Mark got a killer shot of this with his 600. I wanted to steal his memory card but his D4 uses some kind of weird card that I've never heard of before and it seems that I need a custom made card slot to be able to fit it. Then I need to develop the software to read the images off the card. Way too much work, I'll just stick with being jealous.Quote:
Originally Posted by Colin Gilyeat
