swans Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

So, this one is Re-posted. Apparently - what looked subtle, but mysterious and quite an interesting glow at my home laptop's screen - was plain darkness when viewed from other computers :)
Obviously the screen adjustment was not right.
So I decided to adjust levels little bit more and make the photo lighter.

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Swans against Tallinn skyline. Well, typically for Estonian winter the sea is all frozen up and covered with ice. This particular photo is shot near one place where some street drainage is lead to sea - so a little spot of uncovered free water remains there for the joy of birds.
I used a tripod for this shot, but since it was quite windy it was still very difficult to produce a stable shot. The swans are naturally all fuzzy, because there was nothing to keep them in place, but I actually liked the effect.
The yellow glow on the birds comes from street lights.

Postprocessing: crop, resize, unsharp mask.

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Sneza (706) 2005-04-21 4:59

Nice shot but I think it could be more lighter.
Good composition especialy POV.
Well done.

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jajko (572) 2005-04-21 5:05

hi!!
i like in this photo a sky. sky is nice lighting. on the horizon warm line of city - this is funtastic and mystic. long time of exhibition make this photo very amazing.
by the way - good work.

olopez (4870) 2005-04-21 10:32

Very nice picture Lennart,
There is a mistake with the exposure:
exif info 7/10 s against 30 s.
if there were 30 s there would be more motion blur

richtersl (3544) 2005-04-23 8:57

This one is much better! The effect of the streetlights on the swans is very mystical, indeed. Tallinn's lights twinkling in the distance make a very nice background.