Foggy colors - juvi loon

[Randy Stout]

This juvi loon was imaged several weeks ago in northern Michigan. It was still, but very foggy, and I had to wait quite a while to take any pictures.

D4 600VR f/4.5 1/500 sec ISO 800 No flash Camera mounted on a pedestal in the bottom of the Loonie Too.

Post: CS5 selective sharpening, added a couple of points of black to the blacks to help cut the fog effect on the loon itself. I did several versions with varying degrees of sharpening and contrast on the bird, and felt this was a nice compromise

Advice and comments always appreciated.


Cheers

Randy

[Gary Esman]

Randy, this is gorgeous! Love the background and the fog. Everything else is spot on. Very cool.

Gary.

[Jack Breakfast]

Stunning, artful, an absolute delight. My favorite loon image of yours BY FAR. Well done, manzo!

[Josh Clark]

Really love what you have going with this Randy. The low POV and the beautiful pastel colors of the BG. Looks like a painting! Great job on this one.

[Nick Palmieri]

Great low angle, super BG, love the fog and mood of this one. Contrast and sharpness look good to me.

[Karl Egressy]

A truly beautiful painterly image, Randy. Love it!!!

[Tony Whitehead]

Excellent, Randy. I like the warm pastels from the BG coming through onto the water and the contrast with the monochrome bird. This is a great series of loon images that you're posting.

[Jeff Dyck]

I love this image Randy! The loon looks perfect and the background colours are just great (looks like an autumn image). Well done.

[Maya Raut]

Hi Randy,

Great artistic work. Perfect low angle, head turn, details and beautiful BG. Fog plays great role in image. Earlier I thought there is blue cast on back of the bird but I am not sure as I have never seen this bird before. TFS

- Maya

[Ken Watkins]

Randy,

This is wonderful, the muted colours caused by the fog make this very special indeed

[Giuseppe Varano]

Randy your loons' shot are really amazing. Your location is wonderful and gives always very suggestive atmospheres.

[Markus Jais]

This is awesome. Great light and colors, wonderful low angle and perfect head turn. Wonderful mood in this picture.

Markus

[Randy Stout]

Thanks everyone for the kind comments.

Maya - the bird does have a slightly cool cast. I could warm it up, but I felt it played well with the foggy feel, so left it

Jeff - I thought it was very autumn looking as well.

I have a couple more () from this series, so will eventually post them as well.

Thanks again.

Randy

[Satish Ranadive]

Very sweet,simple and gorgeous image.

Regards,
Satish.

[Jim Crosswell]

Great image Randy! I like the low angle, fog, sharpness, HA, BG and composition.