Aerial Ballet

[Ian Cassell]

Brown Pelican - St. Maarten

Canon 7D
Sigma 100-300mm f/4 @ 276mm
1/2000 sec f/8 ISO 400

Crop for composition and sharpening in CS5

Sort of a bland gray cloudy BG, but I think it still works OK. I might try adding some clouds and see what that does.

[Rachel Hollander]

Ian - interesting flight position though I wish the head was in better light. Looks like you did well under the circumstances. How big a crop is this?

TFS,
Rachel

[Ian Cassell]

Thanks, Rachel. This is minimal crop -- done with my old zoom (of which I'm not particularly fond since I got my 400, but I thought it might be the better vacation/travel lens). I agree about the head.