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Common Seal in last light

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Posted by Danny Green on October 26, 2009 at 6:18 PM
Common Seal in last light
I went back to the coast on Sunday as the weather looked good again with some strong wind predicted, this is a shot I have had in mind for sometime and the light was perfect for creating long shadows and also showing the blowing sand.

Canon 1DS Mk11, 24-105mm, F4.5, 1/125, ISO 200

Danny :wavey:
Posted by John Robinson on October 26, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Just right ! Love the diagonals.
Cheers
JohnR
Posted by David Sewell on October 26, 2009 at 6:32 PM
Nice composition - and I love that shadow.

David
Posted by john macpherson on October 26, 2009 at 6:37 PM
Ah - very nice indeed! Well spotted and the composition is spot on for me. Maybe a wee tweak in PS to darken the shadows, but thats not a crit, just an observation. Lovely image.
Posted by Rob Ashton on October 26, 2009 at 6:38 PM
Superb Danny.

Great feeling of the barren, windswept coast here.

Rob :toast: :toast:
Posted by Liam Pauling on October 26, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Wow Danny, this is really good. The lines in the sand, the shadow and nice to have a posing seal in there as well!!

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Posted by Ian Mason on October 26, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Danny - this is just sublime! The diagonal lines are just amazing. I suppose you could tweek this in many ways for different effects. For me, I would lose the areas of ?water at the top and perhaps place the seal even further to the top left to emphasise the lines even more. Whichever way, this is one of you best IMHO.
Posted by Tim Taylor on October 27, 2009 at 3:02 AM
Definitely photography as art. Really nice.

Tim :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by PhilH on October 27, 2009 at 4:00 AM
Simply superb Danny....

Now where is it you get most of your inspiration :biggrin:

:toast: :toast: :toast: :wavey: :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Kim Connolly on October 27, 2009 at 5:04 AM
A beautiful composition.
Posted by Adam Seward on October 27, 2009 at 6:00 AM
Beautiful shot Danny. And well done on the bear photo in EWPotY - the print looked really nice at the GDT festival.
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Posted by eric weight on October 27, 2009 at 7:12 AM
I think that's a bit special Danny. It's been passed with flying colours by cheetah woman as well, so I guess that makes it official. Your certainly on form at the moment.
:wavey: :toast: Eric
Posted by Lewis Thomson on October 27, 2009 at 7:21 AM

Superb Danny! Agree that a little off the top may make it even better.

Cheers,

Lewis.
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Posted by Greg Hitchcock on October 27, 2009 at 7:33 AM
Great shot, Danny, like the light and the shadow following the diagonals in the sand.

Greg
Posted by Brett Lewis on October 27, 2009 at 7:45 AM
Some of my favourite wildlife subjects and you've captured this one beautifully Danny.. Really quite special and I pass on my congrats for the EWPOTY comp as well.. Inspirational!

Brett :toast: :toast: :wavey:
Posted by Ian Butler on October 27, 2009 at 9:01 AM
He pulls it out the bag again!! Cracking shot Danny. No nits by me (this time!! :jump: ) Even looks good in black and white! :wink:
:toast: :toast:
Posted by Ian Macdermott on October 27, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Nice one Danny,

Oh alright its great :biggrin:


I would be tempted to get rid of both the water pools though. :smile:






Posted by Tom_W on October 27, 2009 at 12:33 PM
The light on this really makes it.

T
Posted by Nick on October 27, 2009 at 1:26 PM
Great idea and nice light. You might want to apply a bit of reverse vignetting to the edges to lighten them.

:wavey:
Posted by David Taylor on October 27, 2009 at 1:27 PM
Yes great lighting contributing to a skillfully taken image.

:toast: :toast: :jump:
Posted by Fran French on October 27, 2009 at 2:31 PM
Yes I too would like to know where you get your inspiration from, come on, spill the beans :biggrin:

An absolutley superb image Danny!!

Fran :toast: :toast:
Posted by Justin on October 27, 2009 at 2:49 PM
The wind blown sand and the soft shadows leading your eye to the seal works superbly, as does the plentiful space around the animal. Very nice. :toast: :cool:
Posted by Danny Green on October 27, 2009 at 3:05 PM
Hello Phil

I still can't believe my wife told you that :biggrin: Ok its a fair cop I like to contemplate my life and work whilst sitting on the toilet and many of my ideas are thought of whilst S£$%^&ng and as I have an unusal habit of spending a lot of time on the bog I do have a fair few ideas Floating around (Sorry).

Danny :jump: :jump: :jump: :wavey: :biggrin:
Posted by Fran French on October 27, 2009 at 3:19 PM
He he! I will do the same methinks :biggrin: :biggrin:

Thanks for the tip Danny, I am off now :biggrin: :smile:
Posted by Edwin kats on October 27, 2009 at 4:02 PM
Welll done again Danny. Great shot but you already knew that. Now I'm off eating lot's of beans.

Ed
Posted by Maggie Campbell on October 27, 2009 at 5:04 PM
Too much information Danny :eek:

A stunning shot and beautiful light. Can't add to whats already been said. :wavey: :smile:
Posted by PhilH on October 27, 2009 at 5:46 PM
LoL... serves you right for being late....

(Good job Carluccio's is noisy as most of the patrons would know as well)

Speak soon :wavey: :biggrin: :wavey:
Posted by Mark Davies on October 27, 2009 at 7:00 PM
So next year should be good , you've crapped in every one of mine. And I have a few.....
Git.... I hate you.
Oh and the septic tank needs emptying .
Posted by David Kjaer on October 27, 2009 at 7:22 PM
Great lighting, composition and the wind blown sand adds that final touch!

David :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Ian Haskell on October 27, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Diamond shot Danny. Love the horizontals. :wavey:

Ian
Posted by Paul Hobson on October 28, 2009 at 6:12 PM
great idea making excellent use of light and pov, super shot

Paul