Follow The Leader - Does It Work?
Prior to going to Argentina Ramon Casares recommended that we visit Ibera Marshes - Esteros del Ibera and stay at Laguna de la Possada. Thank you Ramon - fantastic advice; fantastic week; fantastic photography - over 50 different species.
To get into the Marsh where we were staying you had to navigate a 160 km dirt road, which because of constant rain was actually a 6 - 12" mud deep stream which required six hours of slugging it out in an old 4x4 - great fun.
We came across a field and there was one spoonbill and a group of storks. As soon they heard our car they were in the air. Fortunately I was wearking knee high rubber boots because I simply jumped out of the car and started shooting.
I have a lot more images to share; however, this was fun watching the spoonbill overtake and lead the storks.
The image is 60% of the original and using the clone tool I move two of the storks "a bit" to create a little bit more space between the birds.
Because the background is almost the color of this site background would you put a 1 or 2 pixel black stroke around the image?
Camera: 7D
Capture date/time: 25 Nov 09; 10:30am
Light condition: clear and cloudy
Lens: 300 f/2.8
Focal length: 600mm
Extender: 2.0X
Tube: none
Flash/Comp: no;
ISO: 800
Exp Prog: Manual
Speed: 1/2000 sec
Aperture: f/7.1
Exp Comp: 0
Metering: Evaluative
WB: Auto
AF Drive: AI Servo
Tripod: no
Filter: None
Crop: 60%
Processed in LR 3 (beta) and then CS4 - the "usual" plus Topaz Denoise and Pixel Genius Sharpening.
All C&Cs gratefully appreciated!
