Monday, May 14, 2012

Great Crested Grebe


Wasted some time sat by a lake in the Sun on Sunday,
blessed by the company of this fine Great Crested Grebe.

Sunny enough to attach the 1.4x teleconverter for a bit of extra reach, however with the best light coming when the clouds edged overhead the ISO was strained a little.  Overall I'm pleased with the image, I cloned out some floating debris to match the cleanness of the composition and I love the colour contrast, reflection and soft ripples of the water.

The second shot is from a sequence taken as it appeared with a large fish, unfortunately the light was pretty poor under full cloud and it decided to whisk it's prize away from me.

ISO1600, 560mm, f/8, 1/500s, -2/3ev, noise reduction, cropped, cleaned, levels 

ISO1600, 560mm, f/8, 1/1000s, -2/3ev, noise reduction

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