Wall of Geese I

Fir Island, WA; Feb 2006. Taken shortly before sunset and just as they made a deposit all over me. Took an hour or more to clean up the gear later that night. This picuture is one of those that simply loses alot in the jpg converstion. Look fine in larger scale. No post processing other than sharpening and a slight color shift correction.

Half of the people I show this to hate it, the others love it. Comments? A couple more geesers posting over the next week.

Cheers, Randy


Nikon D200
80-200 f2.8 VR @ 110mm

Man, that's a lot of geese! I also love the soft, translucent effect on their wings as well. Beautiful shot! :)

You were indeed quite close to this mass of geese if you were only shooting at 110mm! I can see why you got whitewashed...

I kind of enjoy seeing a mass of birds like this but I can also see why people might not like looking at it. The scene of mass chaos is probably a bit discomforting to certain people. Whereas I like scanning it in an attempt to pick out details of individual birds others could find it visually distracting and quite a chore to do the same. People are just different...

What about cropping out the far hillside in the LC? Just geese, geese, geese is what I think this photo should be all about.

Great idea Mark. My only concern is the loss of those geesers concentrated in the lower right hand corner. I'll give it a look see.

They must have been very close. Overall I like it. It's a great capture. It appears the image is moments after the geese took flight, and their flight pattern is still a bit chaotic.
Harald

All i can say is WOW! I like Mark's crop idea, but it works for me as is also. Great capture!

That must have been quite a sight! I really like how you got this...

I like it, but I think my nightmares from Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" are going to come back.

This is a pretty amazing image. Well done!

I like it - sorry for the massive whiteout problem you had... but it was worth it.