Went out to the Lake to try and shoot something flying or flapping but this Swan was posing around up stream with the cooling system open and operative for all to see... Well, how could I refuse.
Est. score 6.7
dream score 7.3
I think this MIGHT do well as it is different
Post Challenge - WOW! So happy to have another ribbon and to be sharing the front page with SandyP
Editing went something like this-:
Shot in RAW opened in photoshop, curves, square cropped, lucisarts filter applied, curves again, selective colour on neutrals, blacks and whites, some dodging/burning around the wings and in the water, noise ninja, resized, noise ninja again for contrast boost, border, submitted.
Original as requested
Thank you for the FAVS and the great comments and a new Personal best.. I'm over the moon
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WOW THIS IS ALMOST LIKE AN ANGEL AND ONE OF THOSE ONE IN A MILLION SHOTS... JUST PERFECT IN EVERYWAY AND DESERVES MY SHERPET JEWEL STAR AWARD FROM ME SHEZ... THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YUR AWESOME IMAGES AND SO PLEASED YOU ARE MY DPC FRIEND FROM SHEZ
Just looking at your Profile: while this is not a black and white...it's general tone is the very Zen palette - all four of your top 4 images have the appearance of B+W. Nice!!!
Just a fantastic photo which I knew in my inmost pap to be yours. Congratulations.
My apologies - I saw the image small, thought how clever of you to have put a sort of olympic laurel wreath on the swan, opened up to see the join, and voila - it's real feathers!
I am so impressed - I have photographed lots of swans on my local park lake, but never got such a lovely view - and the shading an shadowing show off the feathers and space round them just so perfectly.
Absolutely first quality - you must immediately think of selling it widely - very, very good. Congrats on your picture
Beautiful picture! One thing that bugs me is the crop..why the crop to the side?
Thanks.. I tried it center but it just did not look right to me, this was the better crop as I think it gives the swan a place to go to, a space to move into... Just my personal feeling.
lighting is just a couple nanometers shy of perfect, but I'll put that down to the fact that your model doesn't speak your language and wasn't being fed M&M's with the green ones removed (I've heard that some models can be VERY finnicky).
A seriously memorable shot I'd say. something I've never seen in the wild... or the park.
MAK!!! I can't believe mine jumped ahead of yours in the last moments of the challenge! Yours was ahead all week!
Course you know how I feel about THIS photo! I just can't believe we actually are both side by side on the front page!! And you did get your dream score!
I love the composition, but I feel it a little dark. I understand the underexposure to preserve the highlights, though. DOF is a little too shallow.
Overall I like this picture a lot anyway.
Coming back to bump to 10 - the BEST in the challenge! The HDR feel is just gorgeous and the unconventional view of the bird just presents so powerfully the "Wings" idea. What a great capture. Your title just brings it all together: Anna Pavlova would have been smitten!
Beautiful capture of the wings. Too bad the head was not turned to the side to get the completeness of the swan. I've never seen wings do that before. Very pretty with the lighting.
I think you might win, simply on grounds of originality (at least, I've never seen this shot before) and of control of exposure. Its very pretty, this; a bit too much so for my taste which is for the more difficult, but in its way, faultless I think.
i have only looked at 30% of the shots, but i will be shocked if this is not a ribbon. AMAZING SHOT!!!!! If i could give more than a 10 i would, it's just jaw droppin' awesome, i love it.
this is such a great shot. would've been absolutely perfect if there were little babyswans (ducklings?) sitting on the back. but hey...can't win them all ;-)
WOW!!! This is just magnificent. We used to raise swans when I was growing up - you've captured their beauty so well. I love the dark moody tones and unusual POV. This is a masterpiece. 10!
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