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Starlings (lots)

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Posted by Phillip Tomkinson on September 23, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Starlings (lots)
One from jan 09.

Phil.

D700 28-70f2.8 1/10th @ f5.6 iso3200 -1ev HH

PP in NX2 & CS2.

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Posted by Tim Taylor on September 23, 2009 at 1:10 PM
Amazing! I love the sense of movement you've caught here with the slow shutter speed and the late evening colours are great. I'm slightly distracted by the slope left to right which makes it look as if it needs some CCW rotation.

Tim :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Dave Bartlett on September 23, 2009 at 1:47 PM
That's really excellent :toast: I especially like the 'flow' over the trees and the exagerated movement in the foreground. Good one.
Posted by jeff acreman on September 23, 2009 at 3:49 PM
hi phil
great shot, captures the moment great, wonder which starling roost this was as we have quite a spectacle in somerset around that time of the year ?

jeff acreman
Posted by Jeff Harrison on September 23, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Superb Phil - you've captured the wonderful sense of movement and drama emanating from what must be one of the UK's greatest wildlife spectacles and the colouring sets it off nicely :toast: :toast:
Posted by Sandra Hendrikse on September 24, 2009 at 2:44 AM
What a beautiful setting. The sense of movement in the flock is great. Lovely image, well done. :smile:
Posted by Tom Smit on September 24, 2009 at 2:45 AM
Wow. Like the movement in this picture. It's just enough.
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Posted by Jeroen Stel on September 24, 2009 at 3:11 AM
Amazing shot! Very dramatic!
Love it!

Greetings,

Jeroen Stel
Posted by Adam Seward on September 24, 2009 at 6:07 AM
You're not wrong about there being lots of them! Great shot, looks like the end of the world. Not sure if there's enough on the bright end of the scale for a black and white treatment (could be wrong), but it would be a shame to lose the lovely blue colour anyway.
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Posted by Jorne de Bruin on September 24, 2009 at 6:21 AM
Amazing image, simply love it! :toast: :wavey:
Posted by Tom_W on September 24, 2009 at 7:14 AM
Excellent image...
Posted by Andy Astbury on September 24, 2009 at 8:04 AM
Great shot Phil - lots of dynamism and a real attention grabber..
Posted by A.R.D on September 24, 2009 at 2:15 PM
Very nice.

I loaded it into PS and rotated/cropped it a little counter-clockwise and prefered what I saw a bit more.

Regards
Posted by Tim Munsey on September 24, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Fantastic Phillip, got to be a Wildlife photographer of the year photo that!

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Tim
Posted by Peter Edge on September 24, 2009 at 3:28 PM
What a stunner. This for me is autumn. Everything has been said but well done anyway.
Pete