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Snow bunting lookout

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Posted by Ian Hay on February 19, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Snow bunting lookout
If you like a nice clean background then this could be for you, yes I have been looking at 'white wildlife' in borders.

Quite a bit of playing with levels aiming for a balance between cold blue but not to much. Removed some seeds etc, minor crop

Canon 40D 100-400 at 400
1/640 f7.1 ISO 400 +1 comp

Thanks for looking, C and C welcome

Ian
Posted by john macpherson on February 19, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Nice. Too many bunting pix are....well...just buntings in a whiteness..so its good to see a wee daud of habitat for a change. This is very subtle and works nicely for me. To nitpick - theres a hint of red coming through the shadows on my monitor, which should be blue, but it could be me at fault and is really a minor observation. Well done.
Posted by eric weight on February 19, 2009 at 12:52 PM
Very, very nice. i wonder if that hint of red that John is talking about might be soil bleeding through the snow? Colours don't look amiss to me.

:toast: Eric
Posted by Magnus Hird on February 19, 2009 at 4:05 PM
Nice snow bunting Ian. Only nit is that the shadow from the hollow in the snow at the bottom draws my eye a bit :smile:
Posted by Ian Mason on February 19, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Very nice Ian. It could maybe do with a little more sharpening around the face. Was this is Scotland? Ski area maybe?