I woke up early in the morning before sunrise! I heard the Black Grouses playing outside my tent! It was my first attempt to photograph them. The fog and hoarfrost was amazing, just as the sun breached i got this shot! Maybe the image lack of contrast, but this was as the eye saw it!
The location is northeast of the town Falun in the middle of Sweden.
Canon 40D, Canon Ef 300/2.8L IS USM, Canon EF 2x extender, 600mm, f6.3, 1/250s, iso 800
Very moody image. I may lighten the top of the head and eye as if the sun were coming up and hitting there first.
I'd also crop some off the bottom, I don't think it adds anything to the image. Very inetersting presentation, thanks for sharing it.
Magnus I love this image, it is simply excellent. The mood is fantastic and the very first light of the day touching the reds and the eye is superb. I also love the golden grass illuminated by the same light and the fantastic, dark BG. I like the composition with lots of room around the bird would would crop just a litle bit and I think that some boosting of the contrast and selective adjustment of levels and saturation in the eye, red (knobbes?) and in the grass would improve the result. Very nice eye contact and shooting angle. KILLER image, very well done
JUAN, you did i great job with the image! i LOVE the adjustments you have done! You made the image much, much better thanks!
But that's not what i saw through the the camera! Sometimes you have to ignore that:)
Thanks again! i will try to adjust the original and repost it in the Swedish forum!
Magnus, glad to hear that you liked the repost, of course you can use it for whatever you want but if you need some additional information about the processing job that I did just let me know :-)
I always have on mind that reality is one thing and what you see through the camera (or perhaps is better to say, what you see when the RAW file is opened in the computer) is a different thing. I think that the best we can do is to retain in our barin as much details as possible from the scene we saw and to try to process the image with that information. Obviously, I didn´t see the original image because (unfortunately, I was not there) but I have seen a lot of times the kind of light and I used that information to process it trying to avoid, an unnatural result. (nothing was added to the image, just a litle bit of levels adjustment and saturation). I am sure that you can get a more acurate result. Once again, a superb image
BTW, I have been watching that swedish forum at I enjoyed a lot the excelent images.
Black Grouse
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