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Many thanks for the support and the complimentary comments on my Swift upload and special thanks to Lynne for her UA - very much appreciated.
I promised some 'silhouette' type images - actually I am addicted to the witching hours of dawn and dusk and the shots I get are often silhouette or what I prefer to think of as 'semi-silhouette' as I like to try and capture enough detail to make the image less flat - a problem with hard silhouettes which can easily end up with a 'cutout' look.
V1 is a composite of a Great White Egret flyby at Shapwick two days ago. Both shots used were taken in the same spot with a long lens, but with very different apertures - I could not have frozen the egret with a small aperture which I needed to get some decent dof in the landscape.
V2 is another composite of a group of three displaying Shovellers taken a couple of months ago at Greylake. The dof problems are similar to the first image.
V3 is a straight shot of a pair of Teal searching for a nesting site at Greylake taken very late on a very bright orange evening. Despite many Teal at Greylake in the spring I can now find no breeding pairs there. The Peregrines love them, of course, and stayed on at this site well into the spring. v4 is a shot of one of the 'regulars' at this restaurant.
Hope you like them. A
| Brand: | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera: | Nikon D800  Check out Nikon Nation! |
| Lens: | Nikon 70-200 2.8 VR /Canon 7D Canon 400mm f5.6 |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 28 May 2012 - 10:06 AM |
| Focal Length: | 210mm |
| Lens Max Aperture: | f/5.7 |
| Aperture: | f/14.0 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/100sec |
| Exposure Comp: | -1/3 |
| ISO: | 800 |
| Exposure Mode: | Aperture-priority AE |
| Metering Mode: | Multi-segment |
| Flash: | Off, Did not fire |
| Title: | Great White Flyby. |
| Username: | 
accipiter |
| Uploaded: | 30 May 2012 - 11:25 AM |
| Tags: | Great White egret. Shoveller. Teal. Peregrine. Shapwick.. Greylake. Somerset. Composite images., Wildlife / nature |
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Excellent set of shots Arthur. V1 and 4 are my favourite. Both very good captures.
Am so excited just now. Between doing my C&Cs on here, continually scaring the crows off my feeders, and gawping down the garden with binos, I have just spotted a woodpecker on the house roof at the end of the garden. First time I have been aware of it near my garden 
. Ah simple things amuse simple people! Moira
I particularly like these composites you produce, Arthur: they look completely natural and if you did not admit how they were obtained, then I for one would not have suspected they were not 'ordinary' photos.
And the in flight shot at V 4 is captured so crisply.
ronnie.
Excellent set, Arthur. As a confirmed landscaper I have to say the first two are excellent, the lighting is beautiful. As Ronnie says, if you hadn't let on I would not have known they were composites.
Dave
V1 is a real corker and is my favourite from this set
Another stunning set Arthur,V1 is amazing,well done..Lin
Another terrific set Arthur, brilliant images, esp. like V4
Johanna
An excellent set Arthur, when you mentioned v4 I expected to see a photograph of the Big O sat at a picnic bench!
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