The new Airbus!

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• Fisher (8915)
• [2006-04-12 17:41]

Hi Gerhard,

Good to see you posting.
Beautiful shot and well done on the composition and details. The lighting is perfect. What a bird.

Mike

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• mlines (2870)
• [2006-04-12 17:41]

Hi Gerhard, Good clear capture of this very large bird. The clarity is good enough to see the fine definition on each feather. Very good photo.

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• ALIRIZA (781)
• [2006-04-12 17:44]

Hi Gerhard,
Excellent flying shot Sharpness, colors and POV are wonderful . Congratulations...
Ali Rıza

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• aido (4046)
• [2006-04-12 17:52]

Hi Gerhard,
Great shot, nice title :-) I think the grad filter works really well, it gives the impression of last light as the sunlight is weakening and fading. Great capture, DOF is spot-on and detail perfect. Lovely shot.
Regards,
Adrian

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• shal (2124)
• [2006-04-12 18:18]

Hi Gerhard ,
Great detail and DOF,
a superb capture of this Great White Pelican,
Bravo TFS,
Vishal Sabharwal

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• AdrianW (710)
• [2006-04-12 19:43]
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Great shot, and it's nice to see you back over here again! The pelican almost looks cut and pasted on the background, he's that sharp :) The grad filter seems to have worked like a charm here, although usually I'd hesistate to try something like that myself... Curiously there's a small amount of noise visible in the sky and under the wings, but it's not major. I'd be curious to hear about your post process on this one! Anyway, an interesting note and excellent work as usual :-D

P.S. Love the title!

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• taba (1687)
• [2006-04-12 20:15]

Hi Gerhard
Simply fantastic. Great DOF, POV sharpness, colours etc.
well done.
Taba

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• manyee (21022)
• [2006-04-12 20:17]

Hello Gerhard.
It is so nice to see you. We really miss your beautiful pictures.
This one is no exception. The light on the pelican is gorgeous.
Everything is perfect. Thank you for sharing. : )

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• ldsouza (1349)
• [2006-04-12 22:04]

Hi Gerhard,
Interesting to see the blue+amber filter. I would not have guessed .... it does enhance the picture . .wonder what the sky looked like that day without the filter.
Like your shot, you have the DOF and exposure down very well ... and somehow, you have not burnt the white on the wing .. something that I am struggling with .. so nice to see that it is possible :)
TFS!
Liezel

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• jossim (12248)
• [2006-04-12 22:34]

Bonjour Gerhard!

Toujours un plaisir de voir une prise de cette qualité. Félicitations car,tout est parfaits.

Merci pour l'envoie.


joseph

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• scottevers7 (12267)
• [2006-04-12 22:52]

Hi Gerhard,
HE'S BACK! An excellent in flight. Great pose frozen perfectly. Very sharp detail. Honestly though, I am not to sure about the filter. Knowing these birds are mostly brilliant white, it makes him appear dull. It did help bring great detail in the plumage that may have been lost to OE. I got to shoot alot of these awhile back, and it is very difficult to get the exposure right. Looks excellent. hope you back for awhile at least.
Scott

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• loot (10013)
• [2006-04-12 23:15]

Hello Gerhard
This is a magnificent capture of this great white. Your experimentation (or shear guts) with the blue/amber filter really paid some dividends here. It created a sunset tone to the photo although it was only 09h53 in the morning.
The composition is great and the cropping ensured the bird have sufficient space to 'fly into'. The colours are stunning and the DOF is excellent showing some lovely details on the bird. Although the BG is a little bit noisy it is still very complimentary to the shot and the exposure was perfectly managed showing magnificent contrasts especially on the whites.
Very well done, TFS and a welcome posting from you again.
Regards
Loot

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• Jannie (1223)
• [2006-04-13 4:53]

Great capture Gerhard. Very good POV and great timing. But it's the lighting that makes this special for me. Looks great.

Well done

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• osse (7801)
• [2006-04-13 5:43]

Hi Gerhard
Super detail and DOF.Great sharpnes, BG, colours, POV and composition.
Well done

osse

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• sAner (4744)
• [2006-04-13 6:35]

Hi Gerhard,
This is a very nice picture. You froze the action well. The exposure is very good and I assume the filter worked perfectly. I do have the feeling there is more than average noise though. As you used ISO 100, that must have something to do with sharpening or is it my monitor?

I hope you're doing okay, btw!

Regards,
Pieter

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• marhowie (302)
• [2006-04-13 7:51]

Hi Gerhard,
It's great to see a post from you again..
Just like old times ;)
Excellent inflight. Very good sharpness, detail, exposure, DOF, POV and pose. I think the Grad filter has made a positive difference. It has warmed the pelicans color and produced an interesting sky for BG.
Very well done mf. Wish it was mine :)

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• wkshelton (5492)
• [2006-04-13 8:42]

Hi Gerhard, Perfect photo. Excellent details graet contrast, Perfect in everyway. TFS Kyle

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• Matt-Bird (1930)
• [2006-04-13 9:53]

Hi Gerhard, great photo. This is a beautiful photo of a pelican. Very sharp and a very nice composition.
Regards Matt.

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• coasties (27696)
• [2006-04-13 13:35]

Hi Gerhard

Wow!! Wonderful capture. Excellent timing. The clarity and sharpness is your usual top notch quality. Colours are well saturated with a lovely 'warmness' and I can only assume this is helped by the filter. Nice one! :-)

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• wuta (2142)
• [2006-04-13 14:07]

Hello Gerhard , A Beautifull shot , sharpnes compositie
colours the bg and pov very good ,tfs, Greetings Teunie .

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• naki (40)
• [2006-04-13 14:43]

Hi Gerhard,
What a good timing. I like the filter. First I thought you shot it at the early or late sun.
Excellent detail and composition.
Very well done.

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• Signal-Womb (11044)
• [2006-04-13 18:04]

Wow Gerhard, excellent capture with great detail and pose. Creative use of grad filter on this which really adds to the shot. Very fine work.

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• liquidsunshine (11494)
• [2006-04-13 19:49]

Brilliant capture Gerhard,
One of those late nights. Hopefully all back to normal after tonight.
Well worth a big green :)
Thanks for posting, have a great Easter weekend.

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• ellis49 (30805)
• [2006-04-14 23:15]

Hi Gerhard,
it's great to see a post from you again and as always it's a great one.
The details and POV are very good. Nice colours and light.
Excellent work, my friend.

I'm leaving for a fortnight's vacation, be back in the end of this month. See you later.

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• PDP (11769)
• [2006-04-17 18:54]

Hello Gerhard, Lovely shot and a great title. Very sharp in flight, veer well done on that. Great composition too and I think the filter has given a very nice touch. Very well done!

I'm well, I hope you are too.

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• Nico (1313)
• [2006-04-19 10:58]

Great shot. Good warm colours, I like it. He seems to be smiling. What does he know?

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• nixpix (438)
• [2006-04-21 9:40]

Great shot Gerhardt. I am late on this one and see others have used up all the superlatives. Cheers, Rob

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• Athila (1564)
• [2006-04-24 19:43]

Hi Gerhard!

Effectively it does look like and Airbus! Excellent sharpness and exposure. BG is marvelous. Composition excellent. A well deserved green smiles. TFS.

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• AnimalExplorer (66)
• [2006-05-06 9:44]

Beautiful infligt shot of a Pelican, the ligjhting illuminate the bird well on both top and bottom with great detail. :)

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• benkrut (62)
• [2006-05-21 14:44]

Hi

I was wondering why this time you didn't frame it as the rest of your pictures?
Besides that I like the picture a lot.
Funny title.
Regards
Henryk

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• snowfalken (1788)
• [2006-06-12 13:58]

Another excellent photo of yours! Colors look great, details are superb and composition very well done. You did a nice job showing the pelican from the side view. One can clearly see the streamlined body shape from this angle. TFS.

Eddie

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• deud (2372)
• [2006-10-13 4:23]

beautiful in flight action shot! Beautiful bird with excellent focus, details, colors, light. great job. tfs

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• rdiaz80 (81)
• [2006-10-16 11:14]

Awesome sharpness and awesome timing! Absolutely great!

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• TBW (846)
• [2006-11-18 6:57]

A wonderful shot. If not the airbus, it reminds me of the old airplanes that could land on water. You know, the kind that flew the first trans-atlantic flights from europe to usa. Did you know, by the way, that the drink "Irish coffe" supposedly oroginated from these first trans-atlantic flights? On the trip from usa they had to make several stops to fill gas, and the first landfall in europe was Irland, where they landed usually early in the morning. The passangers were given coffe with a little extra to wake them up after the long flight (or maybe it was to get them drowsy again, i dont know..!) - and there you have Irish coffe.

TFS
Torbjørn