Not a plane

Just for a change, this flies but it's not a plane.



Only nice comments please.

G

Stunning capture George.

Thanks, Peter. This was cheating. Water birds will often let you get very close when you're on a narrowboat.

G

That explains it. I was wondering how you captured that with a 210mm

Years of practice.

OK then....

I really like the artistic approach to leaving the dirt showing from the sensor and also the sublime way that hot pixel in the right wing adds interest to an otherwise dark area, I also love the way you have cropped in on this to emphasise the noise in the grass.

HOWEVER what were you thinking in allowing those wings to blur and show the gracefull movement of this magnificent creature

In addition to impotentspiders comments, The dark area of sky on the right hand edge of frame would benefit from some attention too. But having got that out of the way..... What a great image, Well done!

Regards-Pete

Also looks to me as though its had some cloning done on the horizon around the head / beak area perhaps to remove a stray tree or bush which would have lessened the impact?

Ignore them George, they're only jealous!

The only other heron I've seen in the UK was a DeHavilland one.

Ok, here's one...

I think this picture is good enough to be well worth having another go at the cloning in the area around the head, possibly on a brighter monitor than it was done on originally.

There's no other explanation I can see, than simply that the monitor couldn't show the obvious difference in the blue of the sky, and the blue under the beak, or indeed the 'shockwaves' in the air above it.

Seriously - I edited a lot of my early K10D pictures on an old CRT monitor, and was truly shocked when I saw them on the LCD that I use now.

Ahhh De Havllland!!!



I have never seen a D H Heron but i Painted R A F Cosford`s Devon (The Herons Baby Brother)about 12 years ago and we had our tea breaks in the cabin!

Regards - Pete.

As some people know, I seldom do any post-processing apart from what Silkypix allows, so I'm not much good at it! In this case I did remove (very badly) some bushes behind the head, but I didn't get as far as dealing with sensor dust and the bush on the right. When I get Silkypix Pro I'll try and clean it up a little.

Was the hot pixel comment a joke? I can't see it. But then, my eyes are old, and anyway the *ist D is long gone.

Thanks for all the comments.

G

You're absolutely right, Chris. This was "done" on a pretty nasty old CRT monitor, and I thought it looked worse than I remembered. As said, I'll have another go at it.

G

George

I highly recomend the Silkypix pro. The spotting tool deals with dust spots and other cloning very effectively and easily. I now rarely need to save as a tiff first to do this kind of editing in photoshop before saving a jpeg.

[quote:Was the hot pixel comment a joke? I can't see it. But then, my eyes are old, and anyway the *ist D is long gone.
[/quote]Nope, the hot pixel's definitely there. Can even see it on my laptop screen (still not got round to getting a desktop monitor - partly because all I've found so far are bog standard ones in Colombo).

On a more positive note... I rather like the noise!

By the way, what lens was used?