I'm King of the Jetty

[Rachel Hollander]

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

[Randy Stout]

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

[Rachel Hollander]

Thanks Randy, I don't think the IQ will support the suggested crop.

[Karl Egressy]

Wow, such an excellent pose captured, Rachel. Love the rock and water too. What is the rock covered with?

[Rachel Hollander]

Thanks Karl, tiny mussels.

[Andrew Merwin]

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.

[Stu Bowie]

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.

[Anette Mossbacher]

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

Ciao
Anette

[Shawn Zierman]

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?

[Faraaz Abdool]

Ah Rachel - this was the shot that I missed! Great job capturing such a special moment. Beautiful shot.

[Rachel Hollander]

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

[christopher galeski]

very nice capture,repost is the one,loverly light,nice pose.thanks.

[Faraaz Abdool]

Repost is lovely, Rachel. You had enough IQ to keep the crop quality up. Love it.

[Mike Veltri]

Great pose capture Rachel!

[Satish Ranadive]

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.

[Rachel Hollander]

Thanks very much Chris, Faraaz, Mike and Satish. Satish - the rock is covered with tiny mussels.

[Stan Cunningham]

Still kept your IQ and I like the repost better

[Grace Scalzo]

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.

[Andrew Merwin]

Excellent RP Rachel. I really like the attitude the duck shows.

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Repost is a great improvement. Looks like IQ held up just fine :)

[Rachel Hollander]

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.

[Colin Gilyeat]

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

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the pose, perch and composition in the repost looks great. Well done Rachel!

[Robert Holguin]

Spectacular shot!
That is one great pose, great perch, and the repost is much better.
Well done.

[Faraaz Abdool]

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

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.