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Starlings (not creative - honest!)

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Posted by john macpherson on March 17, 2009 at 11:26 AM
This flock of starlings had chosen to spend the well sub-zero winter night around the relative warmth of the neon sign above a well-known supermarket chain. Shot taken in the twilight window before it got too dark, and very shortly before the security guard ejected me.

(observations on colour & brightness welcome - I'm getting perfect results looking at this image on one computer and cr*p results in the other two - all colour-managed)

1DMk3, 300 f2.8, ISO 2500, 1/250th @ f3.2
Posted by Craig Churchill on March 17, 2009 at 12:08 PM
Saw this on your web site John and Liked it a lot!!! Glad you've posted it!

Craig
www.craigchurchill.co.uk
Posted by Tom Smit on March 17, 2009 at 12:59 PM
Indeed not creative.
But a nice "environmental" shot.
I do not know this supermarket but the colours look oke to me.
:toast:
Posted by Terry Whittaker on March 17, 2009 at 1:18 PM
Well, its a bit creative. Colour and brightness look fine to me and accurate to the Waitrose sign.
How many shots before you caught a bird mid-letter?

Cheers

Terry
Posted by jack chapman on March 17, 2009 at 3:29 PM
like this a lot, perhaps would have been better if you'd caught in front of a more immediately recognisable part of the sign though
Posted by Brett Lewis on March 17, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Looks like a 'Tesco Extra' sign to me..? Although, other than the bird in front of the sign, the others are very over dominated by the sign..

Brett :toast:
Posted by Adam Seward on March 18, 2009 at 9:49 AM
Not sure if its just me, but I can't view the image, no matter what I do. Any chance of posting a link to it on your website?

Adam
Posted by john macpherson on March 18, 2009 at 10:00 AM
I think the problem is with BT - am trying to find out whats going on - I cant see anything either, and my website has vanished!
Posted by Adam Seward on March 18, 2009 at 10:46 AM
OK, I'll keep checking back!
Posted by john macpherson on March 18, 2009 at 5:11 PM
It is BT - they've deleted it without warning or explanation after 12 years of hosting it, and I'm no further forward trying to resolve it after 4 hours on the phone, talking to 14 people in India, Glasgow and goodness knows where else, during which I've been bounced from the domestic team to the business team (some of whom were rude and unhelpful) and back again numerous times, been told to phone this number and choose option 3 (and there was only a choice of 2!), several dead-end numbers and more confusion than you'd believe. For a company involved in the communications business their internal comms is cr*p. And I'm no further forward......