A Puffin with a View

Gallery: AvianPosted August 8, 2011113 views12 comments

For this Puffin image I decided to use a shorter telephoto lens so that I could capture the Puffin's environment as well as the bird. My idea was to leave the background in focus just enough so that the viewer could recognize the background, but not so sharp that it would compete with the Puffin.

Canon 5D
70-200mm f/4L IS @ 200mm
1/400, f/11, ISO 160
6-27-2011, 11:16am

Comments

12 comments

Comment posted by Allen Brooks on August 8, 2011 at 7:17 PM

This one grabbed my attention from the thumbnail. The large version is particularly nice. Good job at visualizing and then capturing the shot. Puffins are one my favorites.

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Comment posted by Michael Lotito on August 8, 2011 at 9:01 PM

Very nicely composed from the bird's perspective. You have to love puffins!

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Comment posted by Luke Ormand on August 8, 2011 at 9:12 PM

I like this a lot - really shows the birds habitat and I like how it is looking out on its domain so to speak

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Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on August 8, 2011 at 9:16 PM

Well conceived and executed, Carol. Looks like pretty bright light; there's some glare off the bird, and the whitish rock is mighty bright. If it were mine, I'd pull the brightness down across the whole photo just a little bit, and then selectively try to reduce the glare from the bird.

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Comment posted by Ray Whitt on August 8, 2011 at 10:05 PM

Love the composition with the inclusion of the habitat Carol. Nice work,

Ray

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Comment posted by Ashley Vincent on August 8, 2011 at 11:34 PM

All too often I reckon we photographers get caught with the desire to fill our frames with a subject, largely because we're showing relatively small-sized images on the net and we want to show off as much detail as possible, so no doubt countless opportunities like this are overlooked in the field.

Your wonderfully composed image serves as a good reminder for me to be always on the lookout for such potential, many thanks for sharing this one Carol and thanks for the inspiration :^)

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Comment posted by keith mitchell on August 9, 2011 at 5:13 AM

Carol i recon you have been very successful with this composition is spot on,great image.

Keith.

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Comment posted by Barbara Graham on August 9, 2011 at 6:25 AM

I really like what you did here. It makes me feel like I'm actually there with the puffin sitting just a few yards away from the rock.

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Comment posted by Eric Diller on August 9, 2011 at 5:32 PM

I love this image....awesome view in the BG

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Comment posted by KC Choo on August 9, 2011 at 7:09 PM

Mission accomplished - and very well!

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Comment posted by Angela McCain on August 9, 2011 at 10:38 PM

Well done here. I like the vastness of the open ocean as he looks out.

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Comment posted by David Hemmings on August 11, 2011 at 9:38 AM

I love this shot Carol, shows a real sense of place, well done

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