On the Island

[Alexander Krebs]

Hello,

on last sunday I made a short visit to the German island Helgoland. Helgoland is the only part of Germany were we have such a breeding colony. The Gannets have their nests there since 1991 and now there are about 1000 pairs.
It is awesome when they are sitting next to the path were you are standing on. When they flyby you can almost touch their bellies. My 500 was almost to long and for many shots I used my 70-300 VR.

Helgoland sees me back on an other visit.

Here a photo of a Northern Gannet. Fullframe, D800, AF-S 500mm f4, 500mm, 1/3200s, f8, ISO 800, -1ev.

[Randy Stout]

Alex:

Interesting landing pose,pleasant background and comp. Very strong sidelighting does provide some challenges but I do think it is an effective image.

What type of post processing did you do?

Cheers

Randy

[Alexander Krebs]

Hi Randy, I just worked on the highlights made a slight correction on the shadows and added a bit contrast all adjustments where made globally on the whole image. All done with Apple Aperture.


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[William Dickson]

Hello Alexander, lovely image, I love those birds. Well done

[Randy Stout]

Alex:

Good call on some shadow adjustment.
re: global contrast adjustment, I might try to do that more selectively so that it doesn't increase the contrast on the very brightly lit areas, which are already losing detail.

Cheers


Randy