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Gannets ( + mod)

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Posted by Mark Davies on May 4, 2009 at 8:30 AM
Gannets ( + mod)
My first venture to Bempton yesterday following advice .Thanks to Andy Snape for his company on the 3.5 hour trip up and back and to Andy Shepherd for the great banter in the afternoon . We weren't avoiding you honest,great to meet you. A venue I'll be returning to again no doubt, despite the drive.The conditions played havoc with the metering yesterday .My first experience of the gannet greet.

Forgot to add
D3 Sigma 500mm f4.5 WO
ISO400 .
CR pp CS3
Posted by Andy Astbury on May 4, 2009 at 8:35 AM
Nice comp Mark, though perhaps a tiny bit too much FG.

Can you lower the contrast a bit in processing matey - you need to lift the midtones a bit :wink:
Posted by Mark Davies on May 4, 2009 at 8:47 AM
I had experimented , probably wrongly, with a polariser to darken the sea a tadge . Lifted the Mids a bit and gave it a hair cut maintaining the AR .All C/C's welcome.
Posted by Ben Simmonds on May 4, 2009 at 9:50 AM
very nice BG spot on.
Posted by John Robinson on May 4, 2009 at 11:19 AM
I like this. Good positioning but maybe a tad off thebottom.?
JohnR
Posted by Andy Shepherd on May 4, 2009 at 11:25 AM

Cracking image Mark and very nice to meet you yesterday, it was a very enlightening experience :biggrin: for me the repost is the better of the two, a well captured piece of behavior, the next time your coming up this way drop me an e-mail.

Andy...
Posted by Malcolm Muir on May 4, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Really nice composition. I like teh contrast with the dark sea. Repost a definite improvemment.

Malcolm :toast: :toast:
Posted by Ian Mason on May 4, 2009 at 4:21 PM
Beautiful! Repost for me too.
Posted by Andy Snape on May 4, 2009 at 4:23 PM
You beat me to this one Mark, I think you definately had the best angle.............lol. It does show what you can get out that D3, mine was full of noise!!!
Posted by Justin on May 4, 2009 at 5:04 PM
Hi Mark,

A really nice image with some great interaction between the birds. I prefer the repost but personally I think the image would benefit from the midtones being lifted quite a lot more, both on the grass and the sea in the background. :toast:
Posted by Mark Sisson on May 5, 2009 at 3:30 AM
Hi Mark,

Nice pose and setting - thingk Justin's right on liftingmidtones a bit more though.

Now you've had a metaphorical taste of Gannets i bet you go back for more!!

Mark

:toast:
Posted by Mark Davies on May 5, 2009 at 4:24 AM
Thanks all ,especially Andy Astbury,thanks for the call .Justin and Mark TY. I have tried to pull the mids up a tadge more without the blue of the sea breaking up too much but not much luck .The insert polariser on the lens may have been an overkill .The grass NP , but the blue sea gets messy.Probably right idea wrong execution , so I will go back for another go . :smile: