Formation

[John Chardine]

These Canada Geese flew by in morning light. I quickly swung the lens up and fired off a dozen or so images. I liked the formation in this image and was lucky to capture the flock with no overlap.

I removed a partial bird from right hand side and lightly cropped. I used Canon's DPP to open RAW before sending to Ps. Even with NR turned off in DPP, the image was smoother than a test I did with ACR 4.6.

Canon EOS 50D, 500mm f4, 1.4tcII = 700mm
capture date: Saturday, November 1, 2008 9:18:36 AM
exposure program: Aperture Priority
ISO speed: 400
shutter speed: 1/4000
aperture: f5.6
exposure bias: +0.0
metering: Pattern
flash: OFF

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Interesting that they are not in V-shape formation. I agree regarding more sharpening of the birds.

[John Chardine]

Thanks. I checked my workflow and I didn't do a final round of sharpening before posting- my mistake.

Maxis- by "pushing the colours" do you mean increase saturation?

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Interesting that they are not in V-shape formation.

I guess it is taken during change of leader in a V formation.

[Ramon M. Casares]

Very nice! I like this one a lot! Light angle is not the best but still, preety nice shot! Congratualitons!

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

Hi John,
Very nice formation and lovely light!