Comic Relief

Gallery: AvianPosted March 7, 2011133 views3 comments

This is from a few years ago and I just love the pose. In high winds, this osprey decided to have a bath away from the youngsters. She spent about 10 minutes doing acrobatics just to dry off. Just an image of a good acrobat. The wind was high and the opaqueness if from leaves blowing around in the way.

Enjoy :)

Nikon d200 1/320 F8, ISO 200
300F4 with 2x teleconverter

Comments

3 comments

Comment posted by Nate Chappell on March 8, 2011 at 12:03 AM

I really like the pose here Lindy, the oof leaves in the foreground left and right are a distraction imo here.

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Comment posted by Jim Hackley on March 10, 2011 at 12:46 AM

I really like the pose and story to go along, too bad about the OOF areas on each side of the bird, thanks for sharing.

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Comment posted by Steve Balke on March 11, 2011 at 7:20 PM

I bet that we've all had OOF obstructions interfere with an otherwise lovely shot, Lindy. I've tried many ways of de-emphasing such things. However, it's pretty difficult to achieve success. Part of the answer is to crop out as much of the OOF stuff as you can. In this case you could do more cropping. However, I'm not sure that you have enough detail here to support a large crop. So, I'd probably relegate this one to the "wish it could have been better" group and try again. Interesting to see the pose though.

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