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Greater Crested Grebe

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Posted by szekiat chan on February 3, 2007 at 7:19 PM
It was a quiet day at Lee Valley today despite the glorious sunshine. Only worthy shot from the day and i had to wait till half past four for it....... :frown:

Posted by Nick Railton on February 4, 2007 at 6:14 PM
Hi Szekiat,

Great shot of the Greater Crested Grebe, its interesting how the colour of the water has gone a sort of gold colour, I guess that was something to do with the angle of light late in the day?

Its a shame we didn't meet up perhaps another time.

Cheers

Nick



Posted by PhilH on February 5, 2007 at 4:08 AM
A nice GCG Szekiat, given the head turn I might place the bird further to the right, including more of the wake... you don't give any techs so difficult to comment further...

:wavey: :toast:
Posted by szekiat chan on February 5, 2007 at 1:48 PM
thanks for the kind comments. As far as techs go, it was shot with a 20D, iso400, 1/200 F8 and at about 4pm in the evening hence the lighting. I could possibly have gotten a better frame were i not half sliding off the banks and into the river. The silt is really fine and my tripod was sinking so i had to open up the legs on the banks instead. Made for a precarious situation and the grebe certainly wasn't worth a 300-800 and pneumonia!