Portrait of a puffin

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• parasbhalla (3634)
• [2009-08-09 5:12]

Hello Bengt,

What a lovely macro shot of the bird! The features of the head are so well shown, especially the eyes and the beak are well focused. In addition, sharpness is excellent along with nice POV and great DOF.
I like the great harmony of colors in this bird. The blurred BG is really nice.

Thanks for sharing.

regards,
Paras Bhalla

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• heimann2 (4536)
• [2009-08-09 6:48]

Hi Bengt,
great portrait with fantastic colours and good sharpness. I really like puffins, but never managed to see one.
TFS
Pierre

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• alin-m (1773)
• [2009-08-09 7:16]

Beautifull macro with nice colours and preety subject,even he look sad.Regards.Alin

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• PeterZ (49139)
• [2009-08-09 8:02]

Hello Bengt,
Good to see you back after a long time. Fantastic portrait in excellent sharp details and splendid clear colours. The eyes are amazing. Very beautiful composition, POV, DOF and OOF BG.
Regards,
Peter

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• thor68 (5674)
• [2009-08-09 8:17]

what a wonderful portrait of the pretty puffin! :-) the light shining on and "through" the colorful beak is fantastic as well
as the details and the sharpness. looking forward to more photos of my favorite bird & best wishes, thor.

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• SunToucher (11162)
• [2009-08-09 9:11]

Hi Bengt,
What a wonderful photo of this lovely Puffin. The light is especially beautiful and gave it a wonderful glow of the top of the head. It also created a wonderful BG. As you wrote yourself, the eye is totally amazing. Technically the photo is outstanding, with great details, DOF and color.
TFS,
Niek

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• jaycee (25460)
• [2009-08-09 16:25]

Hi Bengt,

What a wonderful surprise to find a post from you!! Welcome back. I can never pass on a picture of a Puffin and this close-up is magnificent. The eye is marvelous and the beak looks like a neon light. Excellent blacks and whites, fine details and just a delightful sight. I hope you will be sharing more from your travels.

Jane

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• Luis52 (15809)
• [2009-08-09 16:27]

Hola Benget.
Excellent and fine photo. Just Beautiful. You did and excellent work here with light on his beak. this is a photo to enjoy looking at it for a long time.
TFS My friend.
Luis52.

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• lovenature (6391)
• [2009-08-09 16:56]

Hello Bengt
The soft light brings out the nice colours of this unique looking Puffin. An amazing close up portrait, excellent DOF, detail and composition. I never get tired of seeing a Puffin on TN. Keep up the great work.
TFS Janice

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• vmukherjee (1472)
• [2009-08-09 19:06]

Excellent shot! I would have liked a little more light on the eyes and the face, but the backlit colourful beak holds the centre-stage. Sharply focussed and good shallow dof. Thanks for sharing.

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• pirate (7474)
• [2009-08-10 1:59]

Hi Bengt
great portrait the big point being the colors of the bill with unusual but perfect frontlight
tfs
tom

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• Noisette (7821)
• [2009-08-10 16:48]

Hello Bengt
A great profil view of this lovely bird, you have captured it with wonderful sharpness and superb colors, shots of Puffins are perhaps often posted on TN but always welcome especially when they are so beautiful as yours
thanks for sharing
Jacqueline

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• Argus (50626)
• [2009-08-11 2:43]

Hello Bengt,
The lighting in this close capture of a Puffin is superb! The sharpness and composition are excellent too but for me the great atrraction of this image is the way the light shines though the bill and makes it glow red against a neutral dark BG
A real beauty!
Thanks and best regards,
Ivan

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• kedarkulkarni (1459)
• [2009-08-14 4:12]

Hi Bengt,

what a lovely portrait of this bird. I just love it. I wanted to see this bird desperately. Had seen lot of beautiful photos of this one and also seen many more videos on Discovery and National Geography channel. This is great capture.
I liked your PoV. Very well done

TFS,
Kedar

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• foozi (25839)
• [2010-05-02 5:00]

HI Bengt,
an amazing portrait of this colourful puffin.. The eye is so pretty and the beak glows wonderfully.
A very fine image with the feather could be seen in great details.
The blurry background also gives a strong contrast.
Excellent composition.

Regards,
Foozi