Saturday, 7 May 2011

Swan at sunset

A swan captured in the golden light of the falling sun.

With this shot I wanted to contrast a sharply focused swan with the gently blurred sunset catching on the ripples. I needed to avoid the swan becoming a silhouette against the back lighting so I used a flash.

Kit was 1D3, 135mm f/2 wide open @ 1/5000s, ISO400. In the past flashguns would not sync at such fast a shutter speed, the 580EXII pulses the flash to allow higher syncing.

A little lightening of the swan was done in Lightroom.

Thanks for looking - any questions, please ask!

Phil

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