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Images => Nature, Flora, Fauna & Landscapes => Topic started by: Ron Scubadiver on February 22, 2016, 16:24:30

Title: Beagle Channel Sea Lions
Post by: Ron Scubadiver on February 22, 2016, 16:24:30

(https://ronscubadiver.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/dsc_1118.jpg)
January, 2016, Ushuaia, Argentina

From this batch: https://ronscubadiver.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/beagle-channel-birds-and-sea-lions/ (https://ronscubadiver.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/beagle-channel-birds-and-sea-lions/)

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Post by: JAP on February 22, 2016, 16:28:22

WOW ! also Fine background, deep...

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Post by: Jakov Minić on February 22, 2016, 16:32:09

Amazing Ron!
You are really traveling though South America, my dream destination.

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Post by: Fons Baerken on February 22, 2016, 16:37:44

there's some more fine ones on Ron's page

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Post by: BW on February 22, 2016, 17:06:33

Lovely wildlife shot! Including much of the background helps telling a story about the animals :)

Title: Re: Beagle Channel Sea Lions
Post by: Ron Scubadiver on February 22, 2016, 19:36:24

Thank you everyone.  I have been home for three weeks now but am still going through the photos.  This particular excursion is based in Ushuaia, so it is not necessary to be on a ship to see it as was the case with the inside passage.

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Post by: Tristin on February 22, 2016, 21:03:28

Nice image Ron.  The composition and tones are very pleasing, well done.  :)

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Post by: Akira on February 22, 2016, 23:00:20

Ron, the particular one really stands out in the batch shown in your website.  The bird on the peak of the rock is an important compositional element.

The vignetting of the image makes the image a bit too artificial to my taste, but it should be just me.

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Post by: Jan Anne on February 22, 2016, 23:44:20

Very nice, wishing I was there :)

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Post by: Frank Fremerey on February 23, 2016, 00:50:11

The colors of the rock seem almost like a vignette
wow picture!

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Post by: charlie on February 23, 2016, 01:01:43

Its like a scene at the Natural History Museum. Nice one, Ron.

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Post by: Anthony on February 23, 2016, 01:10:13

Lovely composition and colours.

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Post by: Ron Scubadiver on February 23, 2016, 03:09:58

The vignette was not an added effect. It was the natural vignetting of the 70-300 VR and I had inadvertently not taken it out.  Akira has very sharp eyes.   Here is the image with lens corrections, you may notice more sharpening has been applied too.  I am undecided as to which one is better.

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1536/25111311691_8bfbbc75f7_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Eg136R)Beagle Channel Sea Lions (https://flic.kr/p/Eg136R) by Ron Scubadiver (https://www.flickr.com/photos/57349111@N08/), on Flickr

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Post by: armando_m on February 23, 2016, 04:46:23

Ron, I have really enjoyed all the shotsyou have shared from this trip

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Post by: John Geerts on February 23, 2016, 11:32:15

Gorgeous image, Ron.

Personally I prefer the first one. The 'natural' vignetting brings the focus more to the subjects on the photo.

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Post by: Akira on February 23, 2016, 16:08:18

Ron, thanks for taking your time to post the image with the vignetting corrected.  I noticed the bird simply because of the snowy part of the distant mountain right behind the bird.  Perfect composition!

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Post by: Ron Scubadiver on February 23, 2016, 19:43:55

Thank you Armando and John. John, you Frank and Akira have given me something to think about regarding vignetting in photos without people.  Sometimes it feels like the default lens correction in ACR is too much.  My gut reaction to this one is if I want to have some vignetting it should be a little less than the amount introduced by the 70-300 on its own.