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Reflective Water Vole

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Posted by Ian Macdermott on March 29, 2009 at 3:53 PM
taken at my usual water vole spot today.

D70
80 - 400 at 400mm
1/320 sec at f8 ISO 200
Tripod

Cheers Ian :toast:
Posted by Drew Mellowship on March 29, 2009 at 4:01 PM
It's odd, the reflections hot seems to be a better overall exposure than the actual vole. I know it must be quite difficult to baklanced the exposure for both parts unless you have a super nice vole that will not move for to exposures ! :jump:

I like the image Ian, works for me, perhaps just a tweak on the levels for the upper half of the image perhaps?

Drew :smile:
Posted by Ian Macdermott on March 29, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Thanks Drew,

this is the second edit and as you say its still not right. Oh well back to the drawing board :smile:



Ian
Posted by Dawn Monrose on March 30, 2009 at 6:30 AM
Nice shot! I agree the top half looks a bit bright, perhaps try tweaking with shadow/highlight, instead of levels? On some images it seems to have a better effect.

Still a good shot, looks like he's heading for a dunking! I like the composition.
Posted by Guy Rogers on March 30, 2009 at 10:02 AM
Hello Ian.

Quite like this and the reflection is nice. But I think I would tighten up the composition as I find the bright stick on the right distracting.


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