My wife and I had Sunday brunch at a restaurant in Houston today, and the view out the window included this wonderful swan. So I asked the manager if I could come back around twilight and photograph it. She agreed, and about half an hour before sunset I was back shooting this image.This was shot from a tripod with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II at f/8.0, ISO 400, and 1/45 sec, cloudy white balance, in Av mode at -1.5 Ev, through a 70-200 mm f/2.8L IS USM set at 200 mm with a 2.0x teleconverter (effective focal length 400 mm).
Post processing in CS4: square crop, levels, curves, vibrance, selective unsharp mask, and a vignette. Oh, and I added my name at the bottom with a text layer with the opacity at about 20%.
-CGTTL
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