Courting Gannets

Gallery: AvianPosted May 9, 2017309 views3 comments

Another frame depicting some breeding/courtship displays whilst perched on a rather precarious cliff.

Steve
Subject: Gannet (Morus bassanus)
Location: UK
Camera: Canon 1DX MKII
Lens: 500f/4 with 1.4x MKIII Gitzo tripod/UniqBallhead
Exposure: 1/1600s at f/16 ISO1000
Original format: Landscape, slight crop, almost FF
Processed via: LRCC & PSCC2017

Comments

3 comments

Comment posted by David Schoen on May 9, 2017 at 6:29 PM

Nice PDA and behavioral image. Good color and detail. I really like the expressions on the two observing Gannets.

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Comment posted by Stephen Kaluski on May 10, 2017 at 3:52 AM

Thanks David, in this location it's hard to isolate groups and avoid clipping partial bodies. Light was harsh, but controllable and I was able to retain good fine detail in the Hi res. Nice to have, as you say some PDA for a change.

Registered on March 25, 2007, 189 Posts, 1064 Comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on May 10, 2017 at 5:51 PM

Nice diagonal arrangement, Steve. To me the steep downward angle kind of hides the interaction going on here, but I doubt it was feasible to get a better one shy of dangling your camera over the cliff edge.

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