thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 8月12日 03時55分

Photograph by @andyparkinsonphoto/@thephotosociety
Mute swan cygnet resting on her mothers’ back – This image is one of a portfolio of 9 mute swan images that were recently awarded in the Oasis awards, one of Italy’s leading wildlife photography competitions http://oasisphotocontest.it/andrew-parkinson-highlight-2/ It was the first year that I’d entered these awards and so I count myself extremely fortunate to have had my images recognised. It was taken last summer during an intensive period that I spent documenting the lives of this familiar species, concentrating specifically on this part of their life cycle that to date I’d been unable to cover. I’d hoped to repeat the experience this summer but with other commitments I was unable to invest the appropriate amount of time and so I knew that improving on what I’d already achieved to date was going to be impossible. It might surprise people that, even though this image was taken in the middle of an overcast day this image was actually captured at 1600 ISO. This is because, having spent several weeks acclimating the adults to my presence, and as such building an incredible bond of trust with them, I’d captured this image whilst standing directly over the adult bird whilst this youngster sat on her back. Shooting at such close quarters has the effect of magnifying any small movement, even using the 80-200mm lens that I was using and so I needed to keep my shutter speed up, with this captured at 1/320sec. In addition I wanted to bring the whole cygnet, and the adult bird on whose back it was sitting, into sharp focus and to do this I shot with my aperture at F14. Over the following days I even ended up shooting up at 6400 ISO, with both my shutter speed and aperture being appropriately increased to improve the success rate of the images that I was seeking to produce. The lesson here is to try and identify all of the shortcomings of the images that are being produced and then adjust ones technique accordingly to minimise the chance of the problems repeating themselves. Please #followme at @andyparkinsonphoto to keep up-to-date with my images @andyparkinsonphoto @thephotosociety #muteswan #cygnet #swanbaby

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