Abstract Icelandic Orca

Gallery: WildlifePosted December 2, 2015147 views4 comments

Hi! I want to thank everyone for the wonderful feedback on my images so far. It's really great to get other people's perspectives and opinions. Being new to NPN, I have so very much enjoyed seeing all the incredible talent on this site. What a cool place to "hang out"! I hope you all aren't getting tired of marine mammal images, because here's another one...
I like this one because of it's abstract nature. I photographed this orca as it swam under a bridge I was standing on during a breezy February day in Iceland. This was a large adult male who luckily decided to surface for a breath right below me (about 15 feet down). It was SO incredibly windy on this day that I remember I was having a lot of trouble even keeping the camera strap around my neck let alone being able to hold the camera STILL. However, the blustery conditions created some facinating texture on the water - and yes, the water really was that color and very COLD! This image is cropped only slighly because I caught a small section of the bridge in the frame on the original image. I also added a very slight vingette. Thanks for looking!
~Camera and Settings~
Body: Pentax K5iis
Lens: Pentax DA 55-300mm
55mm, ISO 800, f/4.0, 1/1250 sec.

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Jeff Martyka on December 2, 2015 at 11:48 PM

I love it! The more I shoot the more I'm interested in graphical/abstract shots and this works really well for me. I think its interesting in that I could see someone walking into a room, looking at a giant print of this and pausing to make sense of the shapes and colors...what is it...oh is that? woah, yeah! Thats how it hit me...well other than the giant print part. ;)

My only nit would be the highlights in the broken water top right are a bit hot.

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Comment posted by Max Waugh on December 3, 2015 at 4:20 PM

Not sure if the vignette adds much, since I didn't even notice it at first. Regardless, I love the texture of the water in this image.

Max

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Comment posted by Gary Minish on December 5, 2015 at 3:22 AM

This is great, Katie! A very abstract graphical image yet a perfect reflection of reality. I've seen this view of Orca a number of times, usually from the back of a large boat but also once from only a couple feet away while on a Jet Ski. It was every bit as close as this one looks! Very nicely captured and processed! devil

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Comment posted by Lon Sharp on December 5, 2015 at 10:06 PM

Good eye, Katie. cool

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