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Soaring Gannet

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Posted by Craig Jones on April 1, 2009 at 4:14 PM
Soaring Gannet
Photo of a gannet soaring in the wind over the awe-inspiring cliff's at bempton. This place is home to many seabird species but is famous for it's gannet's, and as soon as you start to approach the cliff's you are instantly aware of the noise and the smell of thousands of seabirds, a beautiful place to watch these lovely birds.
All Comment/Advice Welcome

Tech;
D300,600vr
F5.6,1/1600
iso400
PP CS3,Full Frame

Thanks For Looking
Posted by Tim Munsey on April 1, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Oh, still alive then. Stop these Bempton shots or I'll have to visit again, unlike you I can't stand heights.
Nice shot, think you should reduce contrast in camera so you can get detail out of the blacks and whites in post processing.

Tim
Posted by Barry Southon on April 1, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Craig

Looks great to me.

Barry :wink:

Milford Ks
Posted by Mark Hamblin on April 1, 2009 at 6:35 PM
A fine flight shot. Could be shown a tad lighter to brighten it up a little.
Posted by Dawn Monrose on April 2, 2009 at 3:58 AM
Lovely shot, good composition and pose!
Posted by John Chapman on April 2, 2009 at 4:33 AM
Hi Craig, nice capture. :toast:
Posted by Fran French on April 2, 2009 at 8:54 AM
Very nice Craig, like the comp too.

Fran
Posted by Chris O'Reilly on April 2, 2009 at 11:29 AM
Agree with Mark's comments about the brightness but the images scores highly overall. Really like the degree of differential focus.

Cheers,
Chris
Posted by Tom Smit on April 2, 2009 at 12:18 PM
Very nice flight shot. Agree about the whites, but that's very minor.
:toast: :toast:
Posted by Mark Davies on April 2, 2009 at 3:51 PM
Nice one Craig.
Posted by Guy Rogers on April 2, 2009 at 4:01 PM
Hello Craig.

Like the composition on this and the contrast between the bird and water works wery well.

You just need to tone down the whites abit and this would be bob on for me.

:wavey: :wavey: :wavey:
Posted by Major Gilbert on April 2, 2009 at 5:01 PM
Super Gannet Craig. I think a visit to Bempton is in order soon.
Looks good to me minor nits mentioned. :toast:

Major.
Posted by Drew Mellowship on April 3, 2009 at 10:51 AM
Great shot, seems pretty sharp and a nice BG too - well executed !

Drew :smile: