Common Crane PanBlur/Painting

[Krijn Trimbos]

This is one from a little while back. A year ago Jasper and I went to Sweden to photograph these cranes. We had a three days in the hides but spend a week at the spot. When not in the hides the cranes were close but not close enough to isolate them or go for portrait shots as we didn't bring the higher focal length glass. Instead we tried for pan blurs in the very late afternoon when the cranes would exchange their feeding grounds for their sleeping grounds. The darker strips of green and brown/black were plants and scrub growing on little islands in the water.

C & C always welcome,

Canon EOS 30D 1/15 f18 Manual
ISO 100
Canon 100-400 f3.5-4.5 L IS USM
Focal Length 400mm
G1325, M490

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Cool idea and patterns. I might desaturate the blues a few points.

[Maxis Gamez]

Very cool image and panning. The wings are perfect and goes well with the "speed". Love the blues as they are!

[Brutus Ostling]

I really like the panning and also all the space you have left around the crane. I havn't been in the hides and at Hornborgasjön for five years, since "film"/slide-times, it's really time to go back.

[Linda Robbins]

Wonderful pan blur and the colors are lovely.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

The colours make this picture. Nice pan blur image. Like the position of the bird.

[Arthur Morris]

Love the effect of the blur on both subject and BGKR but the colors do look well over-SAT-ed. Alfred Forns taught me a great trick for images like this: get a 9-stop ND filter so that you do not have to work as such small apertures (and spend all day geting rid of dust spots).

[Krijn Trimbos]

Love the effect of the blur on both subject and BGKR but the colors do look well over-SAT-ed. Alfred Forns taught me a great trick for images like this: get a 9-stop ND filter so that you do not have to work as such small apertures (and spend all day geting rid of dust spots).

mmm I'll have to check that, I can't remember doing anything extensive to the saturation in this shot :confused: Normally I just add about 10 points of velvia vision plug inn to the whole photo after some contrast adjustment with curves and leveling using black/white point in the normal layer. I just learned though that adjusting contrast in curves normal layer also increases saturation a bit and if this is to be avoided should be adjusted in the luminoscity layer. Maybe that is what happened here??

Thanks for all the comments everyone.