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BHG foggy dawn

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Posted by Nigel Blake on October 24, 2007 at 1:21 PM
Thick cold fog, and no birds to start with at Little Paxton at dawn on Sunday, I was wishing I had stayed in bed when the Black headed gulls got active and the Sun made a valiant effort to burn through the gloom. I used half a loaf of Andy Darrington's bread, (it was intended for the Swans in the fog shots we were after getting) and nearly laser treated my eyes the natural way, but the results were well worth the early start, even though they are not of what I originally set out for!

Canon EOS 1Ds MkII + 600mm f4 IS
2007:10:21 08:23:57
600mm
1/8000 sec, f/8
Mode: Av
Metering: Evaluative
ISO: 250
AF mode: AI Servo AF
Drive: Continuous: frame 1
White balance: Auto
Flash: Off
File size: 16.0MB
Image size: 4992 x 3328
Color matrix 4: Adobe RGB
Color space: AdobeRGB
Saturation: Normal
Contrast: -1
Sharpness level: 0
Tone: Normal
Custom Functions:
CFn 17: Expand AF activation area to 7 AF points

Breezebrowser Pro, CS3, levels adjusted for contrast and colour in separate channels, resized and sharpened.

This and a few Deer shots on my updated blog http://ngbdigital.blogspot.com/
Posted by Andy Astbury on October 24, 2007 at 1:53 PM
What an awesome image Nigel :toast: :toast:

But if anyone can explain to me how you managed to take this with a 600mm in one shot I'd be grateful :wink:

This looks like a superbly put-together photo-comp, but if you say it's one shot then I believe you :wavey:
Posted by Nigel Blake on October 24, 2007 at 1:58 PM
I was expecting that, but it is a straight shot, I got a whole sequence.
Posted by Major Gilbert on October 24, 2007 at 2:10 PM
Tremendous looking image Nigel with bags of impact and wow factor. :toast: :toast:

Major.
Posted by PhilH on October 24, 2007 at 2:27 PM
Now that is just surreal... the trees look almost as if taken by a wide angle....

A quite awesome image that pushes the boundries....


:toast: :toast: :wavey: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Andy Astbury on October 24, 2007 at 2:28 PM
Incredible :toast:
Posted by Alan Bryant on October 24, 2007 at 2:30 PM
Great impact :toast:
Posted by Graeme Lee on October 24, 2007 at 3:27 PM
Yup...awesome :toast:
Posted by Justin on October 24, 2007 at 4:48 PM
Different and extremely eye-catching.
:cool: :toast:
Posted by John Kerr on October 24, 2007 at 5:30 PM
pretty damn fabulous!!!!!!
Posted by John Lee on October 24, 2007 at 5:31 PM
Not your usual BHG image! love the warm colours and the sunburst effect through the trees and mist. A really different bird image and pleasure to see.

John Lee
Posted by writepic on October 24, 2007 at 6:46 PM

i was with andy thinking it was a composition, glad to read it wasn't, well done, a belter and a very different image.

mark
Posted by Jeroen Stel on October 24, 2007 at 7:02 PM
Amazing shot!!
This is award winning stuff!
Well done!

Greetings,

Jeroen Stel
Posted by jack chapman on October 25, 2007 at 3:34 AM
can't work it out really but like said stunning
Posted by Nigel Blake on October 25, 2007 at 4:35 AM
A screen shot of the RAW thumbs in Breeze
http://ngbdigital.blogspot.com/
Posted by Mark sellings on October 25, 2007 at 4:43 AM
brilliant :toast:
Posted by Paul Gibbs on October 25, 2007 at 5:01 AM
STUNNING!
Posted by David Kjaer on October 25, 2007 at 5:03 AM
Hi Nigel

Well seen and taken. Impressive!

David :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Des Ong on October 25, 2007 at 9:07 AM
Great timing! :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Barrie Courtenay on October 25, 2007 at 12:57 PM
Cracker............. :toast: :toast:
Posted by David Taylor on October 25, 2007 at 1:47 PM
Cutting edge image. Brilliant!

:toast: :toast:
Posted by Michael Sayles on October 25, 2007 at 2:08 PM
Hmmm, doesn't really do it for me. Not sure what I'm missing, LOL!
Posted by Marko Trebušak on October 26, 2007 at 1:50 AM
I hope that your eye is OK :eek:! As chorus wrote, it's a great eye grabbing image.

Cheers,
Marko
Posted by Mark Sisson on October 26, 2007 at 6:25 AM
Can only concur with previous comments.

:toast:

mark
Posted by Nigel Blake on October 26, 2007 at 12:17 PM
Many thanks for all of the kind comments :wavey:
Posted by Paula Graham on October 28, 2007 at 10:20 AM
Adding my voice to the chorus!