Bosque Sunrise REPOST

Gallery: AvianPosted December 12, 2010100 views9 comments

Cold, cold, cold.

The crack of dawn.

Sandhill cranes just beginning to stir as the sunlight filters through the morning sky turning the ponds into iridescent blues, pinks, golds.

Comments and suggestions are welcome; that way I can return with new ideas and a hand warmer.

D700
500 mm f/4 lens
f/8
1/640s
-.67 EV
Aperture mode
Matrix metering
ISO 800

Comments

9 comments

Comment posted by Wayne Willison on December 12, 2010 at 3:36 PM

First things first. Get a hand warmer. I like the idea here where the birds are silhouetted against all that gold, but something bothers me. I'd try cropping the top down to where it just includes those grey weeds in the bg.

Registered on April 10, 2009, 292 Posts, 3967 Comments

Comment posted by Carol Hyman on December 12, 2010 at 3:58 PM

Interesting idea, Wayne. Here's a cropped version. I had been focusing so hard on the red glow in the sky on the right that I didn't think of cropping.

Carol

Registered on January 18, 2007, 597 Posts, 8062 Comments

Comment posted by Ron Dudley on December 12, 2010 at 6:15 PM

I like the mood here Carol and the varying poses of the birds. I prefer the repost - for me there was too much featureless black up top in the original.

Registered on March 30, 2007, 437 Posts, 10915 Comments

Comment posted by Keith Bauer on December 12, 2010 at 6:41 PM

Hi Carol: Another classic Bosque image. Nicely captured. I like the cropped version. I think the image needs some CCW rotation.

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Comment posted by Carol Hyman on December 12, 2010 at 9:05 PM

Yet again another variation. Sure hope this one is straight...

Registered on January 18, 2007, 597 Posts, 8062 Comments

Comment posted by John Tobias on December 13, 2010 at 9:45 AM

Nice shot, I like the original and the reposts. I think the original gives a greater sense of the habitat, while the reposts focus closer on the cranes. Thanks for sharing.

Registered on September 12, 2009, 2120 Posts, 6455 Comments

Comment posted by Ron Bielefeld on December 13, 2010 at 11:02 AM

The last repost works for me Carol. Nice shot with great mood.

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on December 13, 2010 at 8:11 PM

Hi Carol, Shots like this make getting up at the crack of dawn worthwhile. The 3rd version looks great, both the second and third look somewhat darker to my eye than the first and I think that is also an improvement.

Registered on February 1, 2006, 1158 Posts, 19528 Comments

Comment posted by Albert Darmo on December 15, 2010 at 7:16 PM

Hi Carol

I know it's a bird gallery

But i'm the minority, i prefer the first version.

perhaps a little crop on the top, but please leave those lovely gray layers of color in the B.G.

Albert Darmo. Canada

Registered on November 25, 2008, 1386 Posts, 11978 Comments