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Mute Swan

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Posted by David Featherbe on November 18, 2010 at 9:14 AM
Mute Swan
Canon EOS 5D Mark2 EF500mm f/4L ISM USM) ISO1000, f/4.5 1/100th sec. Full frame and unadjusted. Another image from WWT Welney.
Posted by Oscar Dewhurst on November 18, 2010 at 10:39 AM
Stunning water and great composition :toast: :toast:

Oscar :wavey:
Posted by Heath McDonald on November 18, 2010 at 12:46 PM
Very nice David, the colours are excellent, really captures the mood, my only slight nit is that the swan is a little too central, but that is just my preference, maybe a little more towards to top RH of the image.

Heath :toast:
Posted by Paul Rosser on November 18, 2010 at 2:50 PM
Nit covered, a fine image, with great colour!
Regards,
Paul Rosser. :wavey:
Posted by Ian Mason on November 18, 2010 at 3:24 PM
Beautiful colours here. I wish the bird had settled in the lighter top right area. You say it's "unadjusted". Is there a particular reason for this - do you mean no post-processing at all?
Posted by Robert Lawrence on November 18, 2010 at 4:02 PM
Composition is a little central for my tastes.
Posted by Austin Thomas on November 18, 2010 at 4:11 PM
Nice light David. Just a tad too central for my tastes.

Cheers

Austin
Posted by Ian Haskell on November 18, 2010 at 5:31 PM
Lovely and captured as it was...

Did you try any at +2/3?

Ian
Posted by Ian Macdermott on November 18, 2010 at 5:42 PM
Very nice David lovely colour :toast:

Maybe a bit too central.
Posted by David Featherbe on November 20, 2010 at 11:11 AM
You are all right about its central position. I quite liked the space around the swan, which would have been lost had I positioned the subject to the left. Ideally, I should have used a 400mm, giving me some space to crop, however I don't have one! The only post processing was to convert it from RAW to jpeg.