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Water Rail

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Posted by Phil Shaw on May 8, 2007 at 1:42 PM
Water Rail
Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus) - Essex, UK

Canon EOS 1Ds2 + 600/f4IS + EF1.4x + EF25 extension tube, Gitzo 1548 with Wimberley Head WH2, WWS hide.
Manual exposure mode - f8, 1/640s, ISO 640, auto white balance.
RAW image processed in Capture One and sharpened in Photoshop CS3, full frame.

Crappy weather at the weekend in Essex, so here's a picture from the weekend before. Another of this year's target species.
Posted by Craig Churchill on May 8, 2007 at 2:49 PM
Hi Phil

Great shot!!!
Your target list seems to be going well look forward to seeing more like this!!!


Best Wishes

Craig
www.craigchurchill.co.uk
Posted by Dave Courtenay on May 8, 2007 at 3:22 PM
A difficult species to get in the open-Great shot :toast:
Posted by Rob Howard on May 8, 2007 at 4:29 PM
Hi Phil,

Good to see a shot of an elusive species.

In your techs you don't state you have used flash, but to me the image gives the appearance of being slighty over flashed :confused: If you can tone down the "artificial light" look of the image I think it would look better.

Regards

Rob
Posted by Phil Shaw on May 8, 2007 at 4:49 PM
No flash used, Rob; just sun light. I've posted it from my laptop as I'm having ongoing problem with Dell over a new desktop machine. The laptop is calibrated and I thought it looked pretty much how it looked in reality, but it has one of those glossy screens, which are pretty contrasty.
Posted by Jeremy on May 8, 2007 at 5:50 PM
Great shot, Phil, of a hard-to-see species. There is a slight halo visible around the bird on my (CRT) screen.
Posted by John Chapman on May 8, 2007 at 6:00 PM
Great image Phil. :toast:
John
Aberdeen
Posted by chris hajee on May 8, 2007 at 6:47 PM
Great image Phil. :toast:
Posted by Tim Munsey on May 9, 2007 at 3:19 AM
Nice one, a busy bird. A bit more room on the left for me.

:toast:

Tim
Posted by Graeme Lee on May 10, 2007 at 5:51 AM
Great shot Phil. Love the pose and the colour processing looks superb. Agree with Tim, though a minor nit. I can't see a halo on my laptop, but there's definately some kind of compression issue that seems to be surrounding the bird. Blinkin' laptops :wink:

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