Re: (SI) Motion appears to be up...

Walter Banks wrote:

Paul Furman http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/79657023

A water soaked cormorant taking flight. A cormorant struggles
into the air. It is still dragging on the water. This is a tough image
to get both bird and water exposed correctly especially when
looking into the light. The cormorant's head is under exposed.
A better story might have been including the splash marks
behind the cormorant if the original included them.

Thanks for the comments Walter. I could have left a bit more of the splash trail but it was basically a 1/4 crop of the lower right corner & I wanted the bird fairly large in the frame. Actually I just tried that & it works well, I thought I needed space in front of the bird per standard rules but more white spray trail looks good. BTW here's a full pixel crop:
<http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=California/Bay-Area/San-Francisco/neighborhoods/2007-05-28-sailing/crop&PG=2&PIC=11>
Even stopped down two stops, only the rear wing was in focus! It was awfully tough trying to track these buggers with a huge manual focus lens on a bobbing & swaying sailboat.

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