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Titchwell Sanderling

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Posted by Graham Goddard on January 26, 2009 at 3:51 PM
Found this shot whilst running through my old unprocessed RAW's - taken at Titchwell in October.

Camera: Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Exposure: 1/4000 sec
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 700 mm
Exposure: +1.14
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: No Flash

Processed in LR2 and CS3

Posted by Stephen Kaluski on January 26, 2009 at 4:02 PM
Like the pose Graham, but not sure about the process, although viewing it on the laptop! :confused:

Steve :wavey:
BTW Did you enjoy the haggis?
Posted by Tom_W on January 26, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Lovely pose and comp. A wee tad 'hot' in the centre which can be easily brought back by a bit of highlights adjustment.
Posted by Chris Johnstone on January 26, 2009 at 4:12 PM
Nice shot Graham, I love the near vertical white line of feathers - the transparency is wonderful. Interesting pose too. The PP is cool - very punchy.

Chris
Posted by Dave Courtenay on January 26, 2009 at 4:46 PM
My first reaction was that it is a tad hot as per Toms comment but other than that it look good-different pose and nice and sharp-apart from the hot spot processing looks good although again i am viewing on my laptop

Dave :toast:
Posted by Danny Green on January 26, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Hello Graham

Thats very nice love the pose and the colours, is it full frame? If not just crop it to off centre just enough to allow the bird space to look into, no big deal if it is not though.

Danny :toast: :toast:
Posted by Simon Litten on January 26, 2009 at 7:21 PM
Lovely shot.

Simon
Posted by Ray on January 26, 2009 at 7:36 PM
The unnatural foreground aside, which is easily fixed, my first thoughts were what a cracking shot, pity it’s been over Photoshoped. Still a really nice capture tho'..
Posted by John Robinson on January 26, 2009 at 8:28 PM
I like this. A drop in gamma works wonders. Try it !
What "photoshopping" means I don't know unless those reffering to it have shares in the company.
They don't own the image processing market- not by a long chalk..

JohnRobinson
Posted by Graham Goddard on January 27, 2009 at 4:24 AM
Thanks everyone.

I'm still learning to 'Photoshop' and I realised that the middle was hot, but I just don't know enough to bring it back.

Danny - The image is ff - I have a couple of others in the series that I took which were sharper, but the bird is too right in the frame so I didn't process those.

Ray - I'm intrigued by your 'unnatural foreground' comment. The tide was coming in - not sure how I could have changed that to be honest :biggrin:

Thanks


Graham.
Posted by John Chapman on January 27, 2009 at 5:31 AM
Great shot Graham and I agree with the nits. :toast:
Posted by Lea Roberts on January 27, 2009 at 12:44 PM
i like it aswell,and also agree about it being a little hot. nice shot.

lea