The black stork is a winter migrant from Europe. Made this image at pench last year. Migratory birds have a different strategy when it comes to long distance flight journeys. For long distance flying the regular flapping of wings is not efficient instead these birds leverage the rising thermals in the atmosphere to get the thrust required for flight. They are so adept at doing this they can cover around 250km per day by flight without getting tired. Their wings are also evolved with tendons at wing joints that locks the wing position once they take off.
Coming back to the image this is a back lit image which gives a rim lighting effect to the subject. One thing to watch out while making backlit images is the ISO value. It is better to shoot with lower ISO since backlit images tend to have more image noise in the subject. I like the background a lot in this image. In india when we shoot during safari's it is either a green background when the image is made in forest or in a open grassland it ends up being brown. With this image I was lucky to get a bit of both.
2 comments:
That IS a lovely image with a halo around the bird.
However, I still feel that the thick border distracts a bit from the image...could you try experimenting with narrower borders and see if that appeals to you?
Of course this is very subjective!
Thanks Deepa. Not sure if you saw the bigger version. Find the border ok in the bigger version at least to my taste. I usually put some time to think what color would suit for border and to start with even think if a border would suit or not. So you would see in some of my images there would be a border and in some there would not be. I am still trying to understand Deepa what aspects in image making I enjoy and what are the styles in presentation that suit my taste. Though I have some half baked answers still really in the process of figuring out. Experimenting with borders is one aspect of it :)
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