Sunset Plover

Gallery: AvianPosted February 21, 201199 views16 comments

From early June 2010

Nikon D300s 300 f4 + 1.7X TC HH crouched
f/8
1/1000s
ISO 800
-.67 EC

Cropped to 67%, cleaned up the water a bit, sharpened using smart sharpen and USM in CS5 on 27" iMac

- Luke

Edit: I use Google Chrome as my browser and this image looks very washed out - I checked it out on Safari and the colors look spot on. I processed this like I usually do so I'm not sure what's going on... if anyone has ideas let me know since I always use (and prefer) Chrome.

Comments

16 comments

Comment posted by Terry Sohl on February 21, 2011 at 5:51 PM

This is beautiful Luke. The light is wonderful, and I like the detail, especially being able to see detail in the eye. I also like the bit of OOF speckle in the foreground mud, and smoother water in the back half of image...it adds some nice depth.

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Comment posted by Ron Bielefeld on February 21, 2011 at 5:55 PM

Super light Luke. Love the low angle too. Bird is tack in a nice comp. Well done.

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Comment posted by Michael Lotito on February 21, 2011 at 7:02 PM

After todays additional hit from winter something to make me think of summer. I really like the reflection under the plover. Very nice lighting and composition! Another winner!

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Comment posted by Brian Gatlin on February 21, 2011 at 7:14 PM

sweet light, Luke. nice comp and detail, and I like the hints of ripples in the water behind the bird. this has really nice overall sense of peacefulness to it that I like a lot.

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Comment posted by Richard Ditch on February 21, 2011 at 7:39 PM

Lovely light; nice tranquil setting and image. Just what we needed here today.

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Comment posted by Gary Marquart on February 21, 2011 at 8:25 PM

I like the overall peaceful mood you captured here Luke. Nice lighting, and nice job on the exposure, good detail.

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Comment posted by dan elster on February 21, 2011 at 8:51 PM

Beautiful light and a nice comp.

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Comment posted by Gary Gulash on February 22, 2011 at 12:21 AM

Love the warmth of the light from the setting sun. A beauty. I'll leave the tech types to help you with the browser question.

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on February 22, 2011 at 1:12 AM

Looks great from here - beautiful light, great pose, a bit of reflection, and nice BG.
Sandy

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Comment posted by Karen Summers on February 22, 2011 at 6:23 AM

lovely light and compostion on this one and the detail is great

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Comment posted by Rob Drummond on February 22, 2011 at 6:32 AM

Lovely light and fine detail Luke

cheers
Rob

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Comment posted by David Williams on February 22, 2011 at 9:52 AM

Beautiful light and colors, Luke. It all looks good on Firefox, so not sure what is up with Chrome.

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Comment posted by David Hemmings on February 22, 2011 at 10:21 AM

Beautiful light and details, the comp is also great

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Comment posted by Nancy Elwood on February 22, 2011 at 4:41 PM

Luke wonderful light and perfect composition! Congrats!

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Comment posted by Geoffrey Baker on February 24, 2011 at 1:42 PM

The light quality really makes this image