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Last Light -Stonechat

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Posted by Craig Jones on January 19, 2010 at 2:29 PM
Last Light -Stonechat
In the very last rays of sunlight I captured this male Stonechat watching the sunset.I love the colours and light in the image.

All Comments And Advice Welcome

Nikon D3s
Nikon F4VR600
F5.6,1/400
iso 2000,-0.3ev
Matrix
PP-LR2.6,CS3,Full Frame,No Crop

Thanks For Looking :wink: :wavey:
Posted by Robert Lawrence on January 19, 2010 at 2:37 PM
Absolutely beautiful Craig. The light is simply gorgeous, comp is great... just spot on.
Robert.
Posted by Craig Churchill on January 19, 2010 at 2:39 PM
Superb buddy love the background and shallow dof!!

Craig
www.craigchurchill.co.uk :toast:
Posted by Simon Phillpotts on January 19, 2010 at 2:55 PM
Perfick! That rim lighting around the bird is really nice and the composition is great. This really does look like a painting :toast:
Posted by Liam Pauling on January 19, 2010 at 3:03 PM
Lovely image, great light and background :biggrin:

Did you get my email I sent last night?

:toast:
liam.
Posted by Paul Rosser on January 19, 2010 at 3:11 PM
Caught in Lovely lighting Craig!
Paul. :wavey:
Posted by Tim Taylor on January 19, 2010 at 3:12 PM
Perfect! I've spent ages just looking at the play of colours and light in this picture.

Tim :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Craig Jones on January 19, 2010 at 3:12 PM
Thank you for your comments.Liam I did'nt receive your email,send it to the email sign below or my contact page on my website look forward to reading it and helping out if I can :wink: :wavey:
Posted by Philip Newman on January 19, 2010 at 3:55 PM
Gorgeous lighting and superb composition Craig. :toast:

Posted by Fran French on January 19, 2010 at 4:00 PM
Craig, this is absolutely beautiful! Perfect light, comp and all. An image to be proud of, I love it.

Fran :toast: :toast:
Posted by Guy Rogers on January 19, 2010 at 4:14 PM
Hello Craig.

Absolutely beautiful.

The setting and light just make this for me.

:wavey: :wavey: :wavey:
Posted by Dave Bartlett on January 19, 2010 at 4:29 PM
Awesome lighting and the background looks like a watercolour - spot on :toast:
Posted by David Lloyd on January 19, 2010 at 4:30 PM
Not tired of seeing this one Craig!
The light on the stems as well as the little one is magical :)

-David
Posted by Mike Andrews on January 19, 2010 at 4:45 PM
Beautiful lighting and colours, but for my taste a little small in the frame. :frown:

I'd still love to have taken it.
Posted by David Taylor on January 19, 2010 at 5:22 PM
The lighting has created a magical scene, captured expertly indeed, Craig. :wavey:

:toast: :toast: :jump:
Posted by Ron McCombe on January 19, 2010 at 5:23 PM
Beautiful image Craig

this is bordering on art, fantastic

Ron
Posted by Paul Hobson on January 19, 2010 at 6:18 PM
Really like it Craig, lovely composition and light, bird is great size

Paul
Posted by Jeroen Stel on January 20, 2010 at 2:35 AM
Very artistic image with that rim of light around the bird and shallow DOF.
Well done!

Greetings,

Jeroen Stel
Posted by Danny Green on January 20, 2010 at 5:01 AM
Very nice Craig!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Danny :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Ian Macdermott on January 20, 2010 at 7:41 AM
Beautiful shot Craig with great light :toast:
Posted by Karen Summers on January 20, 2010 at 9:29 AM
love this image got a lovely arty feel about it
Posted by Andrew Parkinson on January 20, 2010 at 12:16 PM
Nice painterly feel to it
Posted by Phil Shaw on January 20, 2010 at 1:31 PM
Although the stonechat is rather small in the frame, this more than compensated for by the beautiful lighting and combination of colours on the background; definitely a shot worth having. I'm also struck by the lack of any obvious noise in the image although the iso is 2000. I am therefore wondering about your thoughts on the D3s as compare to the D3. Any comments would be appreciated.
Posted by Craig Jones on January 20, 2010 at 2:27 PM
Thank you all for your kind comments.Phil-I never owned a D3 as the last 12 months I have used the D300,I knew the D3 is a brillant camera,ref frame rate,focusing,noise etc.In the short time I have had the D3s I have found it to be brillant,it gives me about 30-40 mintues more shooting time in low light either side of sunset and dawn before the noise shows,I have taken good images up to iso 4000(see my post here-The ghost,shot @iso4000).The focusing is brillant,the detail in the raw files is sharp,buffer size is very good,the quiet setting on the shutter button works really well with wildlife.with the D300 I was missing images in low light/dawn/dusk but the D3s locks on and gives me that all important shutter speed.The camera has a number of image areas Fx,Dx,1.2 and a few more which are good to use in getting that bit closer but with a smaller raw size.I have nothing bad to say and love the camera,oh the video is very good too,hope that was not to long Phil and has helped any other questions send me an email :wink: :wavey:
Posted by Brett Lewis on January 20, 2010 at 4:32 PM
Nice work Craig.. A reflective spec in the eye would have made it for me but just enjoying the colours and lighting anyway.

Brett :toast: :toast:
Posted by John Chapman on January 21, 2010 at 6:18 AM
Hi, beautiful picture. :toast:
Posted by Chris O'Reilly on January 21, 2010 at 7:20 PM
Saw this previously Craig but didn't have time to comment. Worth returning to for the light and space. Well done.

Cheers,
Chris
Posted by Ian Mason on January 22, 2010 at 3:07 AM
Missed this earlier for some reason. That background is exquisite! I like the bird being small in the frame is this situation - if fact it needs to be small. If it were mine, I'd be tempted to crop a bit from the left, losing the first long grass stem, thus placing the bird very close to the edge - just a thought.