Nature: Wildlife (PROFESSIONAL) - HONORABLE MENTION
The ladies of the sea
Photo © Francisco Mingorance
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I am in the Natural Park of Southwest Alentejo and Costa Vicentina in Portugal, which is perhaps the only colony of storks in sea cliff in the world. Here the waves of the Atlantic Ocean struck with fury and the wind blows almost daily violence.
I chose taking into account the high tide, one night with a ceiling that is cloudless, with the intention to obtain a deep blue sea. I opted for a crescent moon and waited for this were declining near the horizon in order to avoid shadows in crevices and caves of the cliff, also to get a more polarized and less harsh than the moon light high in the sky.
To get more vivid colors I chose a cold white balance and adjust my camera Picture Control option in the landscape. These settings provide me a lot like a pure and Velvia result. I made some test photos framing, depth of field and effect of water movement and levels in-camera editing these from the ISO. Finally, with everything under my control I launched at the end of the show a flash of red light on the top of the rock and the nest, thus get a combination of impressive red colors on deep blue, along with volume. At the same time I chose a short optical to include the entire landscape with red highlighting what incredulous of where a pair of white storks have built their nest. This part was the most difficult because during the long exposure animals can not move the least and this was almost impossible because the wind itself that hit. The vast majority of images were trepidaras by strong wind, many other storks moved, the rest, sometimes I went with the red light and many fell short me. Only the image is finally saved from the trash.
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I am in the Natural Park of Southwest Alentejo and Costa Vicentina in Portugal, which is perhaps the only colony of storks in sea cliff in the world. Here the waves of the Atlantic Ocean struck with fury and the wind blows almost daily violence.
I chose taking into account the high tide, one night with a ceiling that is cloudless, with the intention to obtain a deep blue sea. I opted for a crescent moon and waited for this were declining near the horizon in order to avoid shadows in crevices and caves of the cliff, also to get a more polarized and less harsh than the moon light high in the sky.
To get more vivid colors I chose a cold white balance and adjust my camera Picture Control option in the landscape. These settings provide me a lot like a pure and Velvia result. I made some test photos framing, depth of field and effect of water movement and levels in-camera editing these from the ISO. Finally, with everything under my control I launched at the end of the show a flash of red light on the top of the rock and the nest, thus get a combination of impressive red colors on deep blue, along with volume. At the same time I chose a short optical to include the entire landscape with red highlighting what incredulous of where a pair of white storks have built their nest. This part was the most difficult because during the long exposure animals can not move the least and this was almost impossible because the wind itself that hit. The vast majority of images were trepidaras by strong wind, many other storks moved, the rest, sometimes I went with the red light and many fell short me. Only the image is finally saved from the trash.
About author:
El fotógrafo más premiado de España en competiciones internacionales. Francisco Mingorance se dedica a la fotografía de naturaleza de forma profesional desde hace más de tres décadas. Durante más de treinta años ha ejercido de reportero gráfico para la gran mayoría de revistas, periódicos y ediciones más importantes del mundo, así mismo a publicado más de un centenar de artículos sobre la naturaleza en medios especializados como National Geographic Magazine, International Widelife, Terre Sauvage, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Geo y un largo etcétera. Muchos de estos trabajos han sido reconocidos con diferentes galardones no solo en España sino en el resto del mundo, solo en los últimos cinco años Francisco Mingorance ha obtenido más de 200 premios internacionales incluidos cuatro en el Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2010 y cuatro en el Windland Smith Rice International Awards 2010 siendo el fotógrafo más premiado de ambas ediciones. Forma parte del exclusivo The Photo Society.org, http://thephotosociety.org/member/francisco-mingorance/, un grupo de fotógrafos de National Geographic Magazine comprometidos en contar historias del mundo a través de imágenes y Beautifulplanet la suma del esfuerzo de algunos de los mejores fotógrafos y documentalistas del mundo. Mingorance ha publicado cuatro libros de autor entre los que se encuentran “Naturaleza Asombrosa” que recopila una selección de imágenes con más de cien premios internacionales. En la actualidad su trabajo se centra en exclusividad en proyectos editoriales para la edición internacional de National Geographic Magazine. Macacos de Berbería o Canarias paraíso de biodiversidad, son algunos de los reportajes realizados por Francisco Mingorance para la National Geographic Magazine.BACK TO GALLERY
