A Flamingo Bathing

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Posted by Adrian North on March 6, 2008 at 4:52 AM

Chilean Flamingo (c) (Phoenicopterus chilensis), Slimbridge
I was at Slimbridge with a friend over the weekend and thought I'd use the captive birds to practice some ideas on. This is a Chilean Flamingo that I caught in the middle of its ablutions

. I didn't want to get the normal 'flamingo standing on one leg' image. Does this pose work? Comments are, as always, welcome. The technical details are:
- Camera: Canon EOS 1D Mk IIN
- Lens: Canon 500mm f4 IS + 1.4x
- Aperture: f6.3 -2/3
- Shutter Speed: 1/1600s
- ISO: 400
- Metering: Evaluative
- Exposure Control: Aperture Priority
- Camera Support: Gitzo 1325 + Wimberley Gimbal
- RAW Conversion: Capture One
- Post Processing: Levels, Curves, USM (FocalBlade)
- Crop: As Shot

Many thanks for looking
Adrian

Posted by John Chapman on March 6, 2008 at 5:26 AM

Hi Adrian nice capture and stunning colours on the bird.

John
Aberdeen

Posted by Paul Inglis on March 6, 2008 at 7:21 AM

Hi Adrian,

Very nice capture and well exposed.

Posted by Jeroen Stel on March 6, 2008 at 9:29 AM

Great low POV and detail.
I would crop this one to a PANO and get rid of the large OOF part wich is drawing too much attention.

Greetings,

Jeroen Stel

Posted by Adrian North on March 6, 2008 at 11:33 AM

Thanks everyone for the replies. Jeroen, did you have something like this in mind or more extreme?

Adrian

Posted by Paul Inglis on March 6, 2008 at 11:42 AM

Hi Adrian,

Now the repost is nice - how much more extreme can you get!

Posted by Ian Mason on March 6, 2008 at 12:21 PM

Great action and from an even better angle. Not sure about the crop - I think I prefer the first, but perhaps midway might be better!

Posted by Barrie Courtenay on March 6, 2008 at 2:34 PM

Crop works for me Adrian,really pops now