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First visit to Gigrin.

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11 replies
Posted by stewart canham on June 15, 2006 at 4:39 PM
My good friend Brian Phipps said that it would be difficult at Gigrin and he was right, I took some thing like 450 shots in about 3/4 hour, and ended up with about 4 or 5 keepers. This is the best of the bunch, the weather was cloudy and I had to shoot every thing at 600iso,just to get a fast shutter speed, still its all good experience!!!
Posted by Dave Courtenay on June 15, 2006 at 4:49 PM
Well this one is a good un-I would be inclined to clone the top rh corner-Nice to see the top of the bird :toast:
Posted by Philip Kirkham on June 15, 2006 at 4:55 PM
Hello Stewart
That's not a bad result at all :smile: , I think it could benefit from a little more saturation and a touch more contrast though.I agree about cloning out the top LH corner too!
Best wishes
Phil :toast:
Posted by Rene de Heer on June 15, 2006 at 4:56 PM
Nice result but i agree with the others: clone out top left hand corner.
Rene de heer
Posted by Justin on June 15, 2006 at 6:21 PM
Looks like you managed to achieve a nice result despite the less than ideal conditions.
Never easy tracking them against a detailed background.
Be interested to know what the techs/eqipment used were?
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Posted by Tim Munsey on June 16, 2006 at 3:19 AM
Nice shot, great to get top of bird, good composition and like the background.

:toast:

Tim
Posted by Elliott Neep on June 16, 2006 at 5:19 AM
Great shot, lots of room for kite to fly into and it nice to see a green pasture background instead of the standard blue sky. Looks very crisp. :toast:
Posted by Helge Sorensen on June 16, 2006 at 6:37 AM
Hi Stewart, a very pleasant photo. Always a joy to see the upsides of flying birds! :toast:
Posted by Clive_S on June 16, 2006 at 6:52 AM
It's a great place to visit and you look like you enjoyed yourself with some great results. The only downside from the photgraphic point of view are the coloured wing tags sported by many birds - can't complain really since they are doing so well!

Have they built the photographers tower yet?
Posted by PhilH on June 16, 2006 at 9:57 AM
Very nice indeed, the dynamics are all there to make a great image, only nit has been mentioned ... that is the bright piece of sky top left.

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Posted by Clive_S on June 16, 2006 at 10:11 AM
It's a great place to visit and you look like you enjoyed yourself with some great results. The only downside from the photgraphic point of view are the coloured wing tags sported by many birds - can't complain really since they are doing so well!

Have they built the photographers tower yet?
Posted by stewart canham on June 19, 2006 at 3:19 PM
well thanks once again for the kind comments, I have now cloned that bit of white sky out, and you were all right it looks alot better!!! and no there is still no photographers tower at Gigrin as yet, but they are going to do it...............