This fine young loon was imaged two years ago. It was August, so he was on his own with his sib for long periods of the time, just occasionally stopping by the parents for a snack! I spent a number of hours floating around with the pair of them. They are so curious, and after a while they would swim up within inches of the boat. I have a number of pictures where the edge of the boat is in the frame as I was trying to capture them.
D300 70-300VR 220mm f/5.6 1/250s ISO 1000 hand held, sitting in the bottom of my boat
Post: Selective sharpening, minor crop for comp, color efex pro for local contrast. Noise reduction on BG only.
A bit of a challenge to crop, as I wanted to show the trailing foot, but this tended to center the bird more than I usually do. Thoughts on this appreciated.
Cheers
Randy
Last edited by Randy Stout; 01-11-2012 at 08:20 AM.
Excellent exposure and detail and water drop is a nice bonus.
Agree that the centered comp is not ideal and the foot is not visually important but I think clipping the foot would look worse.
So unless you have more room on the right, I think this is a good compromise.
Curious fellow - juvi common loon
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