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Black Swan portrait (C)

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Posted by Robert Lawrence on October 25, 2008 at 3:22 PM
Black Swan portrait (C)
I spent an hour after work at the Wildfowl and Wetlands at Llanelli on Friday and whilst there was not much in the way of wild stuff that I could photograph (except a Peregrine sat on a bank about a universe away!) I was quite taken with the black swans. Very harsh light but with this subject it seemed to work reasonably well.
EOS 30D
Sigma 500mm
exp 1/125 @f8 iso 200
Posted by John Robinson on October 25, 2008 at 4:07 PM
You're right- its worked well on this one.
Nice exposure - looks ok -so my monitor must be about right ! :biggrin:
Cheers
John
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Posted by Matt Cole on October 25, 2008 at 5:40 PM
it has worked well, this is a very nice portrait. I like the light on the eye.

Matt
Posted by Barry Southon on October 26, 2008 at 9:14 AM
Robert

First class potrait spot on exposure of a black subject.


Barry :wink:

Eastbourne
Posted by Ian Mason on October 26, 2008 at 1:15 PM
Very nice indeed especially in harsh light. A wild one of these appeared at our local reserve recently (so I'm told!)
Posted by eric weight on October 26, 2008 at 4:18 PM
Well that's really nice. I like the light around the bill and the eye makes the shot. It's not often that you can come away with something decent in harsh light, but you have here.
:toast: Eric