Pelican in flight - Pelecanus rufescens - Senegal

BodwickBodwick Registered Users Posts: 396 Major grins
edited February 5, 2005 in Wildlife
I'm just back from a trip to West Africa and this shot of a Pink-backed Pelican caught my eye.

I'm not geared to shoot birds and was using a 70-200mm 2.8L + x2 = 400mm @ f5.6. My faster 200mm 1.8L was just too heavy for small boat use and as I was fishing rather than taking photo's the smaller lens made sense.

If I went to shoot birds seriously it would be with a minimum 400mm + a x1.4 or a 600mm would be better still......

This shots rotated slightly to compensate for the angle I shot at and cropped slightly. A bit of sharpening and a touch of dust removal.

I'm a bit dissapointed with my wildlife aka 'bird' shots. I didn't take very many but they really are poor :rolleyes ...............

This very boat-plane like Pelican was One of only a few usable shots. The Fish Eagles are just about ok but anything smaller just isn't up to showing...

I do have over a hundred Dakar 2005 pic's shot in the hell hole of Kiffa, Mauritania......I'll put a couple up in the right area later....(It was not a nice place to be:uhoh )


So for those 'Twichers' a Pink-backedPelican, Pelecanus rufescens....
"The important thing is to just take the picture with the lens you have when the picture happens."
Jerry Lodriguss - Sports Photographer

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  • GREAPERGREAPER Registered Users Posts: 3,113 Major grins
    edited February 4, 2005
    Bodwick wrote:
    I'm just back from a trip to West Africa and this shot of a Pink-backed Pelican caught my eye.

    I'm not geared to shoot birds and was using a 70-200mm 2.8L + x2 = 400mm @ f5.6. My faster 200mm 1.8L was just too heavy for small boat use and as I was fishing rather than taking photo's the smaller lens made sense.

    If I went to shoot birds seriously it would be with a minimum 400mm + a x1.4 or a 600mm would be better still......

    This shots rotated slightly to compensate for the angle I shot at and cropped slightly. A bit of sharpening and a touch of dust removal.

    I'm a bit dissapointed with my wildlife aka 'bird' shots. I didn't take very many but they really are poor rolleyes1.gif ...............

    This very boat-plane like Pelican was One of only a few usable shots. The Fish Eagles are just about ok but anything smaller just isn't up to showing...

    I do have over a hundred Dakar 2005 pic's shot in the hell hole of Kiffa, Mauritania......I'll put a couple up in the right area later....(It was not a nice place to be:uhoh )


    So for those 'Twichers' a Pink-backedPelican, Pelecanus rufescens....
    Looks pretty good to me, the bird is nice and sharp and well exposed. The OOF white line across the frame right below him/her would get a heavy dose of the clone tool if it were me.
    http://dehmphoto.smugmug.com/

  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited February 4, 2005
    eye
    very nice, but did you do anything with his /her eye ???
    Jeff W

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  • BodwickBodwick Registered Users Posts: 396 Major grins
    edited February 5, 2005
    Head shot
    jwear wrote:
    very nice, but did you do anything with his /her eye ???
    Your right..I had tried to upload the pic at 125k and got bounced as the max is 117k. I went back and got confused with jpeg's bigbird001 and Pelican001 one of which had a drop in the eye's bottom left pixle. to match the top right head for a print I ran off. Now they both have the same 'eye' for detail (they are copies of the same file). I had to think hard to remember what I was doing last night. Well spotted...


    Un-intentionaly not mentioned and not done to confuse or misslead. To be honest I'm still in culture shock and just put it up cos I liked the way this huge great bird had an attitude that matched it's ability to fly....


    Here is the original head just sharpened at 150.
    "The important thing is to just take the picture with the lens you have when the picture happens."
    Jerry Lodriguss - Sports Photographer

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  • BodwickBodwick Registered Users Posts: 396 Major grins
    edited February 5, 2005
    GREAPER wrote:
    The OOF white line across the frame right below him/her would get a heavy dose of the clone tool if it were me.
    Sorry but I'm just not seeing it.....I don't see any white...ne_nau.gif Grab a crop and clone away if you've got time.
    "The important thing is to just take the picture with the lens you have when the picture happens."
    Jerry Lodriguss - Sports Photographer

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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,948 moderator
    edited February 5, 2005
    Nice shot!

    I think Greaper is refering to the water line?

    Ian
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