My final puffin thread - various shots

[pooley]

Rather than keep putting up threads based on a specific type of shot, heres a few of my favourites from Skomer - possbiily too many, but here goes

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2.
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3.
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4.
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5.
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[pooley]

6.


7.


8.
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Mike

 

[Lyndsey]

Love number 5!

 

[Jannyfox]

I love all of them, but 1 & 5 particularly. Nice to see a variety of behaviours that show off the character of these delightful and hard working little birds.

 

[den]

All good Mike ,now i know you could do it ,but what do you think about cloning half the twig out in N03 to the same length as the right hand size to balance it out ,i reckon it would greatley improve the comp ...just my view Mike

 

[wezza13]

Excellent, I personally prefer number 1 and 6

A little bit of a sharpening halo, under the beak on number 5, showing on my monitor.

 

[Phil-D]

Great set Mike, the 'gob shot' is very different

Slight halo for me too, just under the beak and at the far side of the open beak.......... probably wouldn't have noticed had it not been for eagle eyed Wez

All good Mike ,now i know you could do it ,but what do you think about cloning half the twig out in N03 to the same length as the right hand size to balance it out ,i reckon it would greatley improve the comp ...just my view Mike

I like the idea Den but getting it to look right with not having an actual end to the branch to clone back on would be fairly difficult

Edit- couldn't resist, sorry Mike

@den Hows this? Looks more natural than I thought it might

 

[nickjohnwatson]

All tremendous but the shouting puffin is bloody gorgeous

 

[den]

Great set Mike, the 'gob shot' is very different

Slight halo for me too, just under the beak and at the far side of the open beak.......... probably wouldn't have noticed had it not been for eagle eyed Wez



I like the idea Den but getting it to look right with not having an actual end to the branch to clone back on would be fairly difficult

Edit- couldn't resist, sorry Mike

@den Hows this? Looks more natural than I thought it might

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I prefer that ,but at the end of the day its Mikes shot but i do like it like that.
I see it this way Phil,in the origanal youre eye is drawn to the left of the twig ,with the edit its drawn more to the puffins eye (head) ,hope that makes sense

 

[jbw]

A wonderful set of images - excellent photography

 

[holty]

a great set

 

[zicklurky]

Fantastic shots, #6 is my fave. Can never have too many puffins

 

[pooley]

Thanks for looking everyone.

Mike

 

[pooley]

All good Mike ,now i know you could do it ,but what do you think about cloning half the twig out in N03 to the same length as the right hand size to balance it out ,i reckon it would greatley improve the comp ...just my view Mike

Worth a shout Den, always up for suggestions - looks like Phil did the hard work for me below! Actually this stick probably went twice as far again out of shot - he was walking down the path banging into all sorts - me included!

Great set Mike, the 'gob shot' is very different

Slight halo for me too, just under the beak and at the far side of the open beak.......... probably wouldn't have noticed had it not been for eagle eyed Wez



I like the idea Den but getting it to look right with not having an actual end to the branch to clone back on would be fairly difficult

Edit- couldn't resist, sorry Mike

@den Hows this? Looks more natural than I thought it might

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No problem at all Phil, good effort!

Mike

 

[pooley]

Excellent, I personally prefer number 1 and 6

A little bit of a sharpening halo, under the beak on number 5, showing on my monitor.

Cheers Wez, well spotted, sloppy on my part. May I present ...

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Mike