The Strut by Robin Reid

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02-FEB-2005	Robin Reid

The Strut

Del Mar, CA

We are having a glorious run of very warm days with crystal clear skies. All this is a the result of a Santa Ana condition which brings the winds in from the east flowing off the shore to the west making for ideal weather.

I had lunch with a colleague at the Poseidon in Del Mar today and took several "casual" shots.

This little guy is inviting you to see the sights of every day beach scenes taken during a half-hour period. You can see surfers, women, mothers, birds, and more women. ;-)
***BEACH SCENES *** *

Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM
1/1000s f/10.0 at 300.0mm iso400 hide exif

Full EXIF Info
Date/Time	02-Feb-2005 13:07:18
Make	Canon
Model	Canon EOS 20D
Flash Used	No
Focal Length	300 mm
Exposure Time	1/1000 sec
Aperture	f/10
ISO Equivalent	400
Exposure Bias
White Balance	(-1)
Metering Mode	matrix (5)
JPEG Quality	(6)
Exposure Program	manual (4)
Focus Distance

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Guest		22-Nov-2005 01:13
I am taking some time to catch up on your work tonight. This one gets my vote. Excellent composition. It would have been great with either the reflection or the shadow. You got 'em both...NICE!

carol j. phipps		12-Nov-2005 05:24
Wonderful ~ shadow and reflection! So nice. Definitely has a strut on.

Serena Bowles		12-Feb-2005 19:09
I like this shot, and the angles between the bird, his shadow, and his reflection.

Pedro Libório		08-Feb-2005 23:24
absolutly great shot my friend!!! lovely done indeed!

laine82		04-Feb-2005 20:29
Well he's not bothered by what some old groundhog says...to him the weather feels fine :>)

brother_mark		04-Feb-2005 03:50
Nice composition--got the shadow on the diagonal and the reflection filling the bottom left. My constructive comment, only because you've asked and I'm seeing something "odd" again, it looks very digital. Two highlight specks in the foreground are jpeggy and the upper right corner looks jpeggy too. Is this a significant crop? What level of sharpening/USM? I try to keep sharpening modest. Often just the basic "sharpen" function in PS seems to be just right and introduces less noise in even colored backgrounds. Sometimes 70,2,4 gives a similar sharpness. After resizing I usually resharpen even less, like 35,2,4 or 100,0.5,0

Chris		03-Feb-2005 20:22
Thanks for your recent comments - I just love this photograph - he (she) looks like their on a mission of some sort. Chrish

Guest		03-Feb-2005 18:15
Ooooh, this is great, Robin!

Guest		03-Feb-2005 17:56
Nice composition and subject. Interesting triangulation between the bird, reflection and shadow.

Gary Blanchette		03-Feb-2005 14:14
Great shot Robin!

Stu		03-Feb-2005 12:06
Very nicely done, Robin.

Wenche Aune		03-Feb-2005 08:58
Beautiful.

Gary Winters		03-Feb-2005 07:30
Excellente, Sir Robin!

Cindy		03-Feb-2005 06:14
Awesome shot, love the combination of the shadow and reflection. I would give my last 4 cents to be on a beach right now, LOL.

Guest		03-Feb-2005 05:36
Beautiful!!! I like so much your composition!!! Great detail.

Cliff		03-Feb-2005 04:50
Very nice Robin - love the mirror image _and_ shadow.

Gayle P. Clement		03-Feb-2005 03:09
A great catch-a shadow and a reflection!

Herb		03-Feb-2005 02:51
Nice capture Robin, I did not know we had an equivalent to the groundhog. Thanks for the education...:)

Guest		03-Feb-2005 02:30
Yeah, but if he sees his shadow AND his reflection, do they cancel out, or is it 12 more weeks? Good capture.

Janet Lamont		03-Feb-2005 02:10
What a great shot. I like the way you captured the shadow and the reflection.

Karen Leaf		03-Feb-2005 02:09
Love this one, Robin-- LC is right, just lookit that strut. You'd think he was a peacock! Super.

Elaine (etfitz)		03-Feb-2005 01:12
Wonderful reflection and shadow! Beautiful image!

Guest		03-Feb-2005 01:07
reflection and shadow..this little one has company..nice capture

Leo Charette		03-Feb-2005 00:56
Hey this birds got the walk... look at that strut. Oh yeah, I'm cool. :) Great capture Robin. Love the combination of reflection and shadow... a two-fer.

Peter Hollinger		03-Feb-2005 00:34
Great arrangement with the reflection and shadow! And I'm not jealous, we've been having beautiful sunny warm weather lately in Boston -- it's gotten above freezing almost every day.

Coleen Perilloux Landry		03-Feb-2005 00:20
How beautiful. Is it singing "We three, we're all alone" oh, oh, dating myself.