I was concentrating on another subject when I caught this individual stretching its wings sky-high from the corner of my eye. I was already crouching and had to twist to my right...just a little too late as I only got the stretch past its' peak. The pose was still good to keep anyhow and I am quite pleased with it.
Canon 7D + 100-400L @360mm, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/2000s., f/7.1, ISO 400 (settings histogram checked), natural light, handheld, about a 2 degree CW rotation and subsequent corners cropped out, otherwise FF. Minor water clean-up via clone and patch tools.
Last edited by Daniel Cadieux; 08-17-2011 at 05:05 AM.
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I like this one a lot Daniel.
The water is really nice, the bird looks like it is sitting on, rather than in, the water.
Wings are pretty cool.
Your processing is first rate, maybe the best I see here, you should give a tutorial!
Wicked pose. Perfectly framed. Everything else perfect. It looks like a very young bird.
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Excellent pose and lovely details, Daniel.
On my crappy monitor, my weary eyes are seeing a bit of blue in the left wing towards the tip.
Great reflexes indeed; I would have surely bungled this opportunity.
Hey Dan, I like how the wings have closed together, together with the underwing detail of the near wing. Perspective works well, and I would have probably moved him back to the right a touch.