Out of the Box Image of the Week for the week ending March 29th, 2013: Dennis Bishop - Anhingas -- Venice Rookery
Congratulations Dennis!
After anticipating it for so long, I finally made it to the Venice rookery. I'd seen enough photos of shoulder-to-shoulder photographers with tripods and long lenses to be prepared for that, but I was surprised at how small the island is. The birds were nearly as tightly packed as those of us across the water from them. Although I got many shots -- this one, included -- from the shore nearest the island, I also got a good number from a walk around the pond. Most folks seemed pretty much rooted in place, but I'd highly recommend walking around the shore.
Nikon D3S, ISO 4000, f/10, 1/1000 sec, zoom at 400mm
processing highlights
- substantial cropping (Not too long after taking the shot that resulted in this image, I broke out the 2X teleconverter.)
- Flypaper Textures -- For a new sky. The real one was absolutely featureless. Lots of masking, but worth it.
- Topaz Simplify -- Watercolor II, masked off the pepper berries
- Photo Filter adjustment layer -- Deep Yellow, masked off the sky
- Nik Color Efex -- single layer, Contrast Color Range and Darken/Lighten Center, masked off the anhinga on the right
- Redfield Fractalius -- three different B&W layers, Multiply blend mode
- uniform gradient vignette
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Well done!
