Tree Swallows
by Chris Lord
Title
Tree Swallows
Artist
Chris Lord
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
Created using five handheld exposures assembled in Photoshop. *Captured by the West Pond at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens, New York* using a 36 mp full frame *Sony A7r* with Canon 70-200mm L IS USM + 2x converter and metabones lens adapter.
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May 15th, 2014
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Comments (13)
Sharon Talson
Lovely action shot, Chris!
Chris Lord replied:
Nice to hear from you Sharon, thanks so much for that, happy you enjoyed it, cheers
Lisa Holland-Gillem
Lovely, Chris. Soothing background and tones, and the swallows- great crispness and color! l/f/p
Chris Lord replied:
One of the five exposures used was a misty sunset shot that really gave the background that tone and look, thanks for mentioning that. Very gratefull for your nice comment, cheers.
Bob Orsillo
Nice!! Awesome capture Chris! (interesting lens and camera combo) L/F
Chris Lord replied:
Hi Bob, one has to use "focus peaking" to focus manually with the Canon lenses but there just are not many native lenses for the Sony yet. I LOVE the camera however so there ya go! I probably should have lugged the big Canon out there but would still have ended up doing the composite because, well, that's me! :-) Thanks very much my friend, cheers
Chris Lord
I am very very happy to mention that JOE McCLELLAN has generously awarded a FEATURE to this image in the group "EXCELLENT SELF TAUGHT ARTISTS" Thank you most kindly Joe, that's much appreciated, cheers
Lianne Schneider
This is such a fabulous piece Chris - there is something hauntingly beautiful about it. The backdrop is perfect and the light, as always, so lovely. F/L FB TP
Chris Lord replied:
I had just the perfect misty sunset to drop over the whole thing which gives it that quality Lianne, I'm very happy that you enjoyed the result. Thanks so much for the great encouraging comment, cheers
Chris Lord
It is with great pleasure that I announce that JACK TORCELLO has kindly awarded a FEATURE to this image in the "The Artful Photo Topaz Adjust Photomatix HDR" group. Thank you very kindly Jack, that's much appreciated, cheers
Meg Shearer
This is wonderful Chris! Love the light and tones and focus. Excellent work! L/F!
Chris Lord replied:
For this sort of thing the Sony makes life a little harder as the lack of long native lenses is problematic. Using Canon lenses one must wait for ever for the camera to acquire focus or shoot in manual focus mode. "Focus peaking", a feature on this camera does make that easier but it's still not fast enough to get shots of birds in flight etc. So I shot a great many shots and picking the best ones made a composite. Where there is a will there is a way! :-) Time consuming but I was pleased with this too. Thanks for confirming my feelings on it Meg. Cheers