7D, 1/640, iso 250, 500mm, f/9.
Morning feeding time for this loon chick. Would have loved to have a better HA on the chick, but still like the shot hope you do also. C and C appreciated.
Gary.
7D, 1/640, iso 250, 500mm, f/9.
Morning feeding time for this loon chick. Would have loved to have a better HA on the chick, but still like the shot hope you do also. C and C appreciated.
Gary.
Man, that adult is beautiful. I would like to have the reflection, but it looks like they were too close for that. Was this from a kayak or boat?
Gary, I like the repost with a larger view. Very nice behavioral photo.
Dan Kearl
Lovely behaviour shot! I much prefer the OP as the tight crop keeps my eyes on the heads. Reflections don't add much in here IMHO. I think a tiny CW rotation is needed.
I also prefer the original crop. It really emphasizes the hand-off.
Great behavioral image. Very nice lighting and composition.
Gary:
Good looking pair here. I do prefer the OP, since you didn't have the full juvi body, go for the tight crop with lots of detail showing, focus on the exchange.
Head angle on these feeding shots is always a challenge. I have a couple () of these type of shots, but very few with both birds with good head angles.
Even with the juvi turned away a smidge, the light still made his eye pop.
Cheers
Randy
Upon seeing the uncropped version, I prefer the tighter crop also.
Great moment you got here and i prefer the OP for the inimacy of the moment has a greater imapct IMO.
I like the tighter crop for COMP but much prefer the much less contrasty ORIG. It looks to me as if the WHITEs in the image in Pane 1 are miles beyond toasted....
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Well, I was wrong, however.... There was only a smattering of over-exposed pixels in the image in Pane 1 (especially the white bars on the neck), but this is a case where the WHITE band on the neck is totally over-exposed and totally without detail but the highlight warnings do not show. This is usually caused by false Recovery during conversion....
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Thanks all for taking the time to look and the effort to comment. Truly appreciate it. Gary.
I, too, like the tighter crop. Darn, those chicks are always too young to understand HA.
Th is a excellent capture showing parent/child behavior and you have done an excellent job in displaying one of nature's better moment. Thanks for sharing.
Artie: I second the question about what is false recovery. Is school open, yet?
Surely. You have a badly over-exposed image with detail-less WHITEs. You move the Recovery slider well to the right while holding the ALT key. All of the flashing spots indicating over-exposed highlights disappear but, and this is a huge but, the WHITEs are still detail-less.... Not sure why that happens sometimes and not at other times but I do know that the WHITEs in both the original and the repost are beyond burned, over-exposed, detail-less white enamel.... Not sure why everyone else ignored it.
Last edited by Arthur Morris; 08-29-2011 at 04:58 PM.
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