Posers

Gallery: AvianPosted July 21, 201480 views4 comments

D300 200-400mm with 1.7 TC @640mm F6.7 1/500 ISO 200 Tripod

It would have been nice if the guy on the left were looking the other way, but I consider myself lucky that the three of them were just standing in the same plane, resulting in all three being pretty much in focus.

At this time there are fewer them 400 of these whooping cranes surviving in the wild.

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on July 21, 2014 at 7:49 PM

Sweet, Bob. Wonderful to get these at all. Are these from last winter/spring in Texas or do you have a secret stash somewhere? The image quality here is really nice and the eyes pop very well in the larger version. The shadows look just the least bit blue to my eye-you might try warming the image just a trifle and see if you like the results.

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Comment posted by Jeroen Stel on July 22, 2014 at 2:46 AM

Wonderful shot and they look like the ghosts of the forest!
A little curve adjustment and warming the colors a tad would improve this one IMHO.

greetings,

Jeroen Stel

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on July 22, 2014 at 9:55 PM

I hope to even just see one of these some day, so great job finding three to fill the frame with Bob. If mine, I might bring up the shadows and the blacks a bit.

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on July 23, 2014 at 2:16 PM

That's very cool to get these 3 different poses Bob, a unique shot.

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