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Final Starling flock

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Posted by Mark Smith on February 20, 2007 at 1:02 AM
Final Starling flock
This is my favourite photo of the starlings. It's about 10 minutes after sunset and the 40,000 birds have finished gathering together and now cover the whole sky. The shapes they are producing are coming thick and fast, small groups start to peal away from the huge flock, funneling down into the reeds like a tornado.

C&C welcome

Techs:

Nikon D70
600 F4
1/4 sec @ f4
ISO800
tripod, Ball head, sidekick

Minimal editing in CS2 + noise ninja'd

Mark
Posted by Vincent Jones on February 20, 2007 at 4:09 AM
Hi Mark, this looks like a tornado of Starlings :eek:

I quite like this, it just shows that at 1/4th of a second what can be created from Starlings heading to roost.

Vince :toast:
Posted by Mark sellings on February 20, 2007 at 7:00 AM
Like the painterly effect and good to see something different, not sure if the composition works for me but not sure how it could be improved either!

:toast:

Mark
Posted by Gavin Parsons on February 20, 2007 at 5:13 PM
This is definately my favourite of the ones you have posted. That would look good as an art print in my opinion :smile:
Posted by Gavin Parsons on February 20, 2007 at 5:16 PM
This is definately my favourite of the ones you have posted. That would look good as an art print in my opinion :smile:
Posted by David Kjaer on February 21, 2007 at 5:05 AM
My favourite also - great composition. Nice work!

David :toast: :toast:
Posted by Helge Sorensen on February 22, 2007 at 1:33 PM
Very artistic, an appealing and interesting shot! :toast:
Posted by Justin on February 22, 2007 at 4:44 PM
Nicely done :toast: