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Great Cormorant-Phalacrocorax carbo

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Posted by Jeroen Stel on March 22, 2007 at 7:26 AM
Great Cormorant-Phalacrocorax carbo
Hi Guys,

Had a lot of work and meetings to attent to and therefor little time to shoot. Still took the camera along to work and on the way there i was able to take a few shots of this Great Cormorant which hangs around in a field regularly...

Greetings,

Jeroen Stel

Canon 20D
Shutter speed: 1/200 sec
Aperture: F 5,0
Exposure mode: Av
Exposure compensation: -1 1/3
Flash:no
Flash exposure compensation: no
Metering mode: Evaluative
Drive mode: Continuous: frame 1
ISO: 400
Lens: 500mm F4.5+ 1.7x TC
Focal length:1360 mm
AF mode: Auto Focus
Full Frame
On homemade beanbag from car-window
Levels/Curves/USM/Contrast/Saturation/Noise Ninja/Lab-Sharpening
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Posted by Alan Bryant on March 22, 2007 at 12:01 PM
Dont understand why theres no comments on this one :confused:

Its a cracking shot, with great detail.Plus i love the setting with the grass :cool:

A little more room on the right for him to look into(easyly done by adding some canvus and cloning the grass)would make this even better.

Other than that :toast: :toast:
Posted by Vincent Jones on March 22, 2007 at 1:15 PM
Hi Jeroen :wavey:

Seen this earlier today but had to dash off to do something. Now back I would like to state how good I think this is, a shot I would love to have taken, you have captured the detail brilliantly. I have never seen one sat in the grass before. Makes a great background :toast:

Vince :toast:
Posted by Malcolm Muir on March 22, 2007 at 2:06 PM
Hi Jeroen

Lovely shot - pose and framing great and love the detail on the back feathers.

Malcolm
Posted by Justin on March 22, 2007 at 2:47 PM
Lovely shot with the fresh green grass making a very attractive,colourful setting. :cool:
Posted by Elliott Neep on March 22, 2007 at 5:26 PM
Beautiful :toast:
Posted by Paul Hillion on March 22, 2007 at 6:43 PM
I too saw this earlier whilst at work and didn't have chance to comment. I think it's a fantastic shot and one of the best Cormorant shots I've seen :toast:
Posted by Tony Beazley on March 22, 2007 at 11:56 PM
Love the formation of the feathers on its back ... a beautiful shot!!!
Posted by PhilH on March 23, 2007 at 4:37 AM
A great shot in setting that one is not used to seeing these birds, when photographed as well as this even a big ugly bird is beautiful.

:toast: :toast:
Posted by Nick Caddick on March 23, 2007 at 6:54 AM
Its all been said good image.
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Posted by Jim Greenfield on March 23, 2007 at 11:15 AM
Excellent work plus all the comments above!
Posted by Arjan van der Stel on March 24, 2007 at 5:20 AM
Great shot Jeroen perfect sharp and nice colours, green background does a good job here.......

Greetings Arjan van der Stelt