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Sea Eagle silhouette

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Posted by kevin Treadwell on November 20, 2010 at 4:40 AM
Sea Eagle silhouette
Just returned from a quick 4 day visit from Mull. What a place!
Not the best weather and light for photography (that will teach us to go in November!!!) but had some fantastic sightings of the islands stars.
So i tried a different approach and went for some silhouette shots of the Sea Eagles flying.

1Dmk4
EF800mm F5.6 (loaned from Canon)
ISO 800
1/800sec @ F5.7
C1 Pro 5 (background colour tweaked a little)

thanks

Kevin
Posted by Roy Bailey on November 20, 2010 at 5:28 AM
Placed very well in the frame and I think the right wing angle for this type of shot.You can tell its a sea eagle, the big heavy beak and broad wings are very apparent.It all works very well. :toast:
Posted by PhilH on November 20, 2010 at 11:20 AM
I quite like this... it is a different take on a Sea Eagle to what we normally see and as Roy says it is recogniseable... only minor nit and something you could do nothing about is that I would prefer a little bit more whispy cloud..... but that is an ideal world thing...

:toast: :wavey: :toast:
Posted by Robert Lawrence on November 20, 2010 at 11:30 AM
That is very nice Kevin. A good silhouette is always a solid black and has to be recognisable. This has both and is also well composed within the frame. Nice one.
Posted by Maggie Campbell on November 20, 2010 at 1:04 PM
I like the idea Kevin and for me it would have worked well if all the sky had been blue but the white area of sky spoils it for me. Sorry.
Posted by Andy Astbury on November 20, 2010 at 1:24 PM
You wouldn't manage that 800mm on Ole's boat - mind you, you wouldn't need it :biggrin: :wink:

Maggies monitor must be running too bright (shame on you Maggs) 'cos the sky doesn't look anything like white on my monitor.

Try shedding some of the unnecessary space Kev - the bird silhouette looks a little lost in that standard aspect ratio.

Out the box thinking - good one Kev :wavey:
Posted by Maggie Campbell on November 20, 2010 at 3:20 PM
Funny that because my monitor has been calibrated with the software recommended by Mr Astbury. If the top the of image doesn't look white to him maybe his eyes are failing :eek:
Posted by Tom_W on November 20, 2010 at 3:26 PM
Different and nice... leave it is it is.

T
Posted by Simon Litten on November 20, 2010 at 5:01 PM
Good to see something different. Good one :toast:


Simon
Posted by Andy Astbury on November 20, 2010 at 6:59 PM
Ms.Campbell - find one area in that sky where the RGB numbers are 255,255,255.

As for the calibrator - I may have recommended it but that doesn't that it's being used properly now does it. :wink: :wink: :wink: :biggrin:
Posted by Ian Haskell on November 21, 2010 at 8:13 AM
Different!

The weather through from Autumn to Feb is brilliant - maybe more unpredictable.

Ian