Bird's Eye Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

When having taken the lunch on the beach on my week-end cycling, the very big white bird has flown from west sky. This is real shape not retouched.
It is regrettable that clouds have reflected in a sea surface white. I should always have had PL filter.

This is my first shot using this EF-S10-22mmf3.5-4.5, focal length range of approximately 16-35mm in 35mm format, truly, it is a long-awaited lens.
There is almost no barrel distortion by the side of a wide angle. The horizon of the upper photo is not processed by PS.
No less than 215g(36%) of this lens is lighter than EF16-35mmf2.8L lens.

Tech: crop, auto levels adjusted, unsharp mask(48%,1.0,0), added frame, and NeatImage(default, 190KB --> 66.5KB) for not loading too much on Adam's server.

danby1, Lio, verge, carper, Joker, Zanni, barronfujimoto, apazevedo has marked this note useful

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danby1 (3689) 2004-11-23 5:22

very nice shot i can see the bird in question, well caught, very thoughtful! the island on the right adds alot to this picture and the differnt colours of the sky are just magestic!
welll done!

cyril (2748) 2004-11-23 5:29

Wow it's amazing.
I can see the bird.
When I was a child I used to look at the clouds to see some shapes.
I like the fact that there is not just the cloud but the island on the right
Well seen and done
Cyril

Lio (783) 2004-11-23 5:33

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It is incredible to see such natural phenomena. Your framing is very well done and the subject is... so... amazing. A very unique shot !

You're a lucky guy Hisashi ! Congratulation !

Rhiannon (1726) 2004-11-23 5:35

Impressive sky! The cloud formation really looks like a bird, a powerful one, like a bird of pray.
Excellent colours here and I like your bold composition a lot, the perfect straight horizon line and 90% sky is very effective.
Great job!

clodreno (0) 2004-11-23 5:38

Great shot Hisashi.. I love the way you kept all that sky in the image...
what do you think of that new lens? i don't see too much distorsion , at least on this image..
But those Canon people are incredible...

verge (1239) 2004-11-23 5:40

nice shot! big bird is really visible. good horizon, nice color and good cropping.... rgds

verge

dkeus31 (25938) 2004-11-23 6:03

Well seen and nice exposure:
Thank you, clouds...

Joker (312) 2004-11-23 6:28

Beautiful clouds formation and a beautiful shot with great exposure.

JesusV (922) 2004-11-23 6:29 [Comment]

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carper (63998) 2004-11-23 6:30

Fantastic one Hisashi,
I am really mad about good skies, here you have found a bird in the sky. People see sometimes animals in the skies as a figure. But this is fantastic, the low skyline is good, The clouds amazing, great job.I like it

maciekda (19587) 2004-11-23 7:46

this is really nice, very nice composition with the stripe of the land at the bottom, the sky is beautiful too. this lens looks really interesting ;)

Zanni (5885) 2004-11-23 7:56

Great capture, Hisashi. You was very lucky but also ready to recognize a bird in this clouds formation. Twice lucky to have this lightining. Lucky is not the appropriate word: you was very able. Good for a new theme (if it doesn't already exist): "That cloud looks like ..."

SoupDragon (652) 2004-11-23 9:40

Wow, you did well capture this. It is amazing!
Great pic, superbly caught.

kikvel (4772) 2004-11-23 10:18

very nicely seen and captured!!!

you have to be really alert to see these forms at the sky.

well done

K.

christina (2040) 2004-11-23 10:58

Absolutely incredible! What a great eye you have! Techincally it is perfect and has redered the subject well. Beautiful!

barronfujimoto (77) 2004-11-23 11:43 [Comment]

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Vagabond (5797) 2004-11-23 12:17

A very nice and amazing picture. Excellent colours, contrasts and definition ..

Kicka (0) 2004-11-23 17:12

What great formation. Well captured, I like the way you fill the frame with the sky and the horisont just in the base. Good work.

glitch (759) 2004-11-23 18:02

Fantastic capture Hisashi, almost exactly as the frozen food logo! Lovely gradient in the blue sky, sweeping diagonally from the top right, and the composition to include the headland on the bottom right is great.
Very well caught, thanks for sharing!

flydragon (0) 2004-11-24 17:40

Hisashi
JUST BEAUTIFULL
no need to be a kids to see
animal in clouds :o)
i like this wild wild angle
weel seen
••simon••

apazevedo (5469) 2004-11-27 5:08

A real bird in the sky, Hisashi! Very well seen and captured, a really beautiful and calm scenery. Good work!

PLB (233) 2004-12-02 8:11

Fantastic, a cloud picture that not only looks like it description, but jumps out of the photo and says 'here I am'.

Tranquil and calm. Wonderful.

KevRyan (22297) 2005-01-20 21:03

Very nice observation - I once watched a fish cloud cross the sky for a long long time! I agree about the little piece of land and the scale this gives the picture - very nice.

Rene Magritte - where are you?

krish (287) 2005-03-08 2:29

good shot - its good to have a nice lens like yours - you should see my spirit in the sky snap also - similar idea

bend1k (910) 2005-03-08 2:40

NIce shot. In that situation, I think a one stop split ND filter positioned diagonally to the left side will do a better job

flashpoint (3438) 2007-05-19 10:54

Incredible sky...........great pano

bye Sergio

waseemkhan (1070) 2007-08-03 3:10

Hi Hisashi,
very nice shot i can see the bird in question, well caught, very thoughtful! the island on the right adds alot to this picture and the differnt colours of the sky are just magestic!
welll done..........
TFS,
waseem khan