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Juvenile Gannet

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Posted by Robert Lawrence on July 13, 2008 at 4:29 PM
Juvenile Gannet
Another from my trip to the Bass Rock. A major difficulty I found was trying to isolate birds. There are so many crammed onto the rock that it is difficult to get one on its own. Even with this shot I had to clone part of an out of focus flying gannet from the top of the frame. I've cropped it to a narrower format to try to emphasise the cliff face, other than that it is full frame.
EOS 30D
Sigma 500
exp 1/500 @ f8 iso 200
tripod
Posted by Matt Cole on July 14, 2008 at 2:55 AM
nice image, it shows the bird in its natural environment very well.

Matt
Posted by John Robinson on July 14, 2008 at 5:21 AM
I like the unusual angle for a gannet shot.
JohnR
Posted by Paul Inglis on July 14, 2008 at 6:21 AM
Hi Robert,

An interesting composition! Nice habitat shot!
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Posted by Brett Lewis on July 14, 2008 at 7:22 AM
Nice image and agree with earlier comments but for me, I'd like to see just a tad more space on the LHS as the rock face just crowd s the bird a little.

Kind regards,

Brett. :toast:
Posted by Colin Crowdey on July 14, 2008 at 2:35 PM
nice environment shot, like the crop, although I personally would take some from the top which I think would give the bird more prominence in the frame

Colin
Posted by eric weight on July 15, 2008 at 1:09 PM
Small bird- big cliff. I love the comp on this one.
:toast: Eric
Posted by Magnus Hird on July 15, 2008 at 3:06 PM
Lovely subject and an interesting take on gannets but one that tells you a bit about them :smile: