Puffin

[nick clayton]

Farne Islands, Northumberland, UK. 30/06/14

Canon 7D
Canon EF 300mm f2.8 II USM Lens
Canon 2x III Extender

1/1000 @ f7.1
+1/3 EV
Aperture priority
ISO 400
Pattern

Levels
Curves
Saturation
Selective Color
Nik Software - Dfine 2.0 noise reduction - background only. Color Efex Pro 4 - Tonal Contrast & Detail Extractor on subject
Photoshop USM

[Karl Egressy]

Nice preening pose, good exposure and detail on both, black and white.

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Super preening pose with great amount of detail, clean BG and sharp as heck! TFS.

[keith mitchell]

Hi Nick, you have some great detail especially in the black plumage, can't find any nits to pick, looks like a great piece of work .

Cheers Keith.

[William Dickson]

Well done Nick Lovely image

[Robert Kimbrell]

Very nice Nick, Well exposed. A beautiful subject and background.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Fantastic portrait and pose! love the excellent exposure and nice textures.

[Shawn Zierman]

Very nice portrait. I enjoy the crop choice...well balanced to my eye. Beautiful bird and the exposure was nicely handled. For web presentation, running a small amount of NR on the background would not hurt here. I see the familiar 7d noisy bg greens that I'm used to from my 7d too :)

[nick clayton]

Thanks for the comments. I did give the background some Dfine 2.0 noise reduction Shawn, maybe a second dose would have helped. I must admit I look forward to upgrading the 7D.

[vishaljadhav]

Nick you were close to the bird, superb details and exposure looks spot on
the details and the head pose really couldn't get my eye to the BG , infact when i read your comment on the 2nd round i re-looked at the BG,
I find it lovely image as is

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Lovely portrait with excellent techs. Nice pose captured against a great BG.
A nice example where square comp works well imo.

[nick clayton]

Thanks again. I was fortunate that there was some thin cloud to subdue the bright sunlight.