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Great Snipe displaying

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Posted by Helge Sorensen on July 30, 2009 at 4:04 AM
Great Snipe displaying
From a recent trip to Norway where I spend a night in a tent in the middle of a Great Snipe lek. Some 20-25 Snipes where displaying all around me - a fantastic experience. Unfortunately they only display at night from 23 - 03. At that time the sun is gone, but it doesn't become real dark. As it was also completely overcast I had to work with some challenging shutter-times.

1D MarkIII + 500/4; iso1600, f4, 1/40, comp (-2/3). Converted in Breezebrowser with WB set to "cloudy". NeatImage applied.

With 99% of my images I trust the automatic WB on the MarkIII, but here I really felt I had to do something to make the image pop.
Posted by Craig Jones on July 30, 2009 at 4:13 AM
Fantastic experience seeing+photographing this, lovely image,great colours and lighting, beautiful shot Helge :wink: :wink: :wavey:
Posted by Liam Pauling on July 30, 2009 at 4:16 AM
Great image especially because of the conditions, I would get rid of the white bit of grass as I find it a bit distracting.


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Posted by Chris Lloyd on July 30, 2009 at 4:16 AM
judging my your techs it must have been very dark! You've done well to pull this shot from 1/40th sec.

Great shot! :toast:

Chris.
Posted by Jeroen Stel on July 30, 2009 at 4:20 AM
Lovely behaviour shot of this beautiful bird!
Agree about the white spot being somewhat distracting but that's easily removed.

Greetings,

Jeroen Stel
Posted by Tom_W on July 30, 2009 at 4:27 AM
The colours are what makes this special for me. For edtorial use I would clone out 3 blades of grass, the central white one, and the two that stick into the body of the bird.

Light must have been pretty bad for those techs.

T
Posted by Philip Kirkham on July 30, 2009 at 4:45 AM
A behavioural image rarely seen, never mind photographed.
Very well captured.
Best wishes
Phil :jump:
Posted by David Kjaer on July 30, 2009 at 5:23 AM
Hi Helge

A bit special and glad to see your efforts were rewarded with a classic and well captured pose!

David :toast:
Posted by Sandra Hendrikse on July 30, 2009 at 6:31 AM
Great experience and a lovely behavioural shot. Well done. :smile:
Posted by PhilH on July 30, 2009 at 10:44 AM
A super image captured under less than ideal conditions, your efforts were certainly rewarded.

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Posted by Brett Lewis on July 30, 2009 at 11:58 AM
Great behavioural shot and very well sen and taken. A few more minutes in PS to clone out those stray bits of grass and you will have something very nice indeed.. Good work.

Brett :toast: :toast:
Posted by Lee Newman on July 30, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Nice comp & good details. Nice surroundings & bg

Lee