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Motif Fall foliage/bright colors - Canadian Geese at sunrise


Posted by DennisD on Thu Oct 30, 2003 6:35 pm

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This is a second image of canaidian geese taken against fall foliage at sun rise. I decided not to crop 2 areas of sky from this image, I'm not sure if that distracts from the subjects. Image Technicals:

Canon EOS D-60
100-400mm @ 400.0mm
Subject dist: 112m
1/500 sec, f/5.6
Mode: Av
Metering: Center-weighted average
Exp comp: +2/3
ISO: 200
AF mode: AI Servo AF
Drive: Continuous: 1

Comments welcome especially on my decision to keep the small sky areas.

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by Bob Wright on Thu Oct 30, 2003 6:49 pm
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Dennis,

Nice shot of these Canada Geese. I would probably crop out the bits of blue shy, I like it better without the them.
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by Bill Whala on Thu Oct 30, 2003 6:59 pm
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I think the composition is much stronger with the two areas of sky cropped. This would work really well as a panoramic crop also. The white patches on their rumps look a little hot. I might have opted for minus 1/3 rather than plus 2/3 on the exposure comp.

This is a very nice image.

As a reminder, the posting guidelines allow 1 post every 48 hours in the Birds Forum. Thanks for posting and for your enthusiasm they are greatly appreciated. :)
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by DennisD on Thu Oct 30, 2003 7:01 pm
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Shoud I delete it? I guess I should have read the manual :-)
 

by Bill Whala on Thu Oct 30, 2003 7:41 pm
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DennisD wrote:Shoud I delete it? I guess I should have read the manual :-)
No, you're cool. Everybody does it from time to time. Actually, you are only a few hours early anyway. Don't worry about it. :)

I hope you have more of these Canada Geese images to share. I'm really enjoying them.
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by Alan Murphy on Thu Oct 30, 2003 8:10 pm
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Dennis,

I too would crop below the sky. awesome colors. great Motif photo.
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by Anthony Medici on Thu Oct 30, 2003 9:33 pm
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I'd crop it to a panoramic. The complementing colors look great! :D
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by DennisD on Thu Oct 30, 2003 9:35 pm
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I have 5 frames in a row of these birds, next one I post I will do it as a panorama. Thanks for all the comments and advice.
 

by Sheri Whala on Thu Oct 30, 2003 11:24 pm
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This is a nice photo! The colors are wonderful!
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by NDCheryl on Fri Oct 31, 2003 12:25 am
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Great colors. I look forward to the pano version.
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by Vesa Huttunen on Fri Oct 31, 2003 2:07 am
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Perfect colors. I like that crop, it tells the distance as you said.
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by Brian L. Zwiebel on Fri Oct 31, 2003 5:31 am
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It's unanimous on cropping the sky. I too would like to see a pano crop here. At least 1/2 of the empty space from top would be great.

I can't agree with Bill on the compensation setting but I don't know digital. His suggestion of -1/3 compared to your +2/3 seems a bit extreme. For film I would think +1/3 for this scene. Some digital folks say -1/3 from the film setting, that would bring you to 0 compensation.

A lovely image Dennis.

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by John Varley on Fri Oct 31, 2003 8:34 am
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Hi Dennis. Lovely shot, I',m also for cropping out the bit of sky.
It always amazes what a powerful effect such small light areas at the edge of a frame can have. They totally alter the feel of the image.
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by AlexC on Fri Oct 31, 2003 2:29 pm
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Wonderful light and colors, as presented the whites are slightly over , great capture and nice composition, as a panoramic shot it would also be very nice, I like it!!! Congrats!!! 8)
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by E.J. Peiker on Fri Oct 31, 2003 4:29 pm
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Very nice shot - I would like to see this with about 1/3 stop less exposure to keep the white's in check a bit.
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by Jim Urbach on Fri Oct 31, 2003 9:09 pm
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Dennis,

Wonderful fall colors. I'd definitely crop from the top.

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by Harvey Edelman on Sat Nov 01, 2003 6:22 pm
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Nice tones and the fall colors are a plus.
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