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 by kipper on Fri Dec 30, 2005 9:56 pm
Taken at Edward Point Reserve at St Leonards, Vic.
Lighting wasn't the most ideal as it was taken at 8.30am. Should of got up earlier but I decided I should layin until 5.30am 
Going to try and get up early tomorrow morning at 3.30am and be there for 5.30-5.45am. Gives me a bit of time to get to the lagoon.
Only nits that I have with the image at the moment is centre placement and I should of probably adjusted the exposure a 1/3 bit more and given it a bit of a sat boost.
D2H, 500F4 AFSII, 1.4X, G1325 + Wimberley Head
ISO200, 1/800, F10, 700MM, Spot Metering, Manual, Full Frame.
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by Alex on Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:06 pm
Nice shot, Darryl. I like the blurred background. Did you do much PPing? Nice website too.
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by blacknstormy on Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:18 pm
Darryl - beautiful beautiful shot - but I've never seen you take any other !!!! That 500 is like a wonderful musical instrument in your hands !!!!
by the way - cool website, but I'm getting an error message when I try to go to the gallery..... working?
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by marcotrov on Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:27 pm
Exceptional portrait Darryl. You are using that 500 like a magic wand 
cheers and Happy New Year
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by kipper on Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:27 pm
Cheers guys.
Alex, no photoshopping except for the typical exposure/level/brightness/sat adjustments. Background is the lagoon, it's usually fairly easy to get a good bg with shorebirds. Just get down to eye level (this requires lying on your belly) with the bird and they'll usually stray in front of the lends from time to time while working the shore for food.
Narelle, unfortunately the website is a bit broken at the moment and I'm not sure how. Goto http://darryl.smugmug.com for all the photos. Trying to get around to make a website that will provide me with news/log/journal of what I'm doing along with photos of my outings. However I never become satisfied with the out of the box solutions for some reason. Darryl (aka Kipper)
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by Slider on Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:30 pm
Great shot Darryl. Nice n crisp 
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by sirhc55 on Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:32 pm
Kipper - you are certainly proving your excellence in your fauna pics. Chris
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by kipper on Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:34 pm
Chris, guess I should try my hand at something new eh Darryl (aka Kipper)
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by sirhc55 on Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:35 pm
kipper wrote:Chris, guess I should try my hand at something new eh
Nooooooooooooooo  Chris
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by blacknstormy on Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:41 pm
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by kipper on Sat Dec 31, 2005 6:57 am
Doh.....was suppose to get up at 3.30am this morning to go and photograph these birds and some others in more attractive light (sunrise) but I slept in 
Weather is beautiful too, it's going to be 42C here. Why does sunrise have to be so early Darryl (aka Kipper)
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by radar on Sat Dec 31, 2005 9:05 am
Darryl,
wait till winter
Wanted to get up early also for the last sunrise of 2005, looked out, it didn't looked great, that's all I needed to get back to bed. 
Another great shot here Darryl. Keep them coming.
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