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Snowy Owl - Extreme Sunset

This was taken a few weeks ago.

You just had to be there, I suppose!

The combination of cloud placement over a setting sun litterally on the horizon plus reflected light on other clouds above the Snowy gave us this unusual colour palette. It's a good thing for me that I had witnesses to the event. The patch of sky behind the Snowy was cloudless.

Canon 7D with the 500L f4 lens handheld @ 1/1000, f4, ISO 400, +2 exposure compensation.
Because of the wingspan, I frammed to my preferred 8 x 16 for this kind of shot. The width is the same as the original image, it's just the excess top and/or bottom that was cropped away.

Although I don't mention it in my photo explanations, I take for granted that viewers understand that the usual standard digital formatting steps such as contrast, colour correction, sharpening etc. are applied.

Cheers,

Mike


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Guest 14-Mar-2012 16:26
Stunning. Best J (v)
Eric Martin14-Mar-2012 01:55
Le ciel est sublime et par le fait même l'harfang l'est également
pierreratte13-Mar-2012 16:31
C'est beau et différent Mike, les couleurs du ciel c'est pas toujours évident mais ça nous réserve des surprises et parfaois de belles surprisesd, Bravo Mike beau travail,
jychamberland12-Mar-2012 15:25
superbe shot Mike!
gilles Tardif09-Mar-2012 12:11
Peu importe l'arrière plan ils sont toujours magnifiques, bravo Mike.
Guest 08-Mar-2012 21:01
Unique!

bruno
Chuck Kling08-Mar-2012 20:43
A sublime shot ....wonderful !!
bennycottele08-Mar-2012 19:35
What a great picture. Thanks for sharing.
Benny