Crabeater Seal

Gallery: WildlifePosted December 15, 2010141 views7 comments

Olympus E-3, 300mm, hand-held prone on ice-floe
f5.6, 1/500, ISO100

Yalour Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, on a large ice floe about 1/4 mile off-shore. Despite their name, they don't eat crab; they eat krill.

Full frame, very slightly lightened, selective sharpening.

C & C, please. Thanks for looking.

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Luke Ormand on December 15, 2010 at 6:59 PM

Jim,

Did you mean ISO 1000? I'm seeing almost no detail outside of the face which isn't terribly detailed either. I like the shot and it's funny to see how small the face is compared to the body.

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Comment posted by Steve Canuel on December 15, 2010 at 11:21 PM

Neat head on view. I like the "rings" on the body that radiate out from the head. Overall image seems to have a very slight greenish/cyan color.

Registered on September 12, 2010, 53 Posts, 660 Comments

Comment posted by Harshad Barve on December 16, 2010 at 1:39 AM

You gotta love this

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Comment posted by Vincent Grafhorst on December 16, 2010 at 12:20 PM

I love the perspective here Jim, quite funny to see that big round body head-on. Shallow DOF in principle works well, yet I would have stopped down one or maybe two stops for this perspective.

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Comment posted by Lon Sharp on December 16, 2010 at 1:55 PM

Great perspective...

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Comment posted by Ajit Huilgol on December 18, 2010 at 7:33 AM

Nice, endearing pose, and love the sharpness of the face fading away into the blurred body.

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Comment posted by Dan Walters on December 18, 2010 at 6:35 PM

Great eye contact and I really like that low angle.

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