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Peter sheep at Edgar's Mission Farm Sanctuary in Australia - www.edgarsmission.org.au Little pockets of light are actually insects flying around in the sky :) V...
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Peter sheep at Edgar's Mission Farm Sanctuary in Australia - www.edgarsmission.org.au Little pockets of light are actually insects flying around in the sky :) Very proud it was featured as National Geographic photo of the day - http:--on.natgeo.com-1k9VEm3
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May, 2014

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Animals

well done!

Love it...

PRO+

Bravo! It is absolutely beautiful, well done ( :

Love this beautiful photo.

Great!

PRO

Lovely!!

Love it

Ultimate

Beautiful, congratulations.

...top shot, congratulations on your Feature :-)

Nice light, congrats on your feature!

Love this capture and Edgar's mission, too! ( Frosty the goat:)

Wonderful shot.Congrats!

Beautiful !

Fantastic shot... Congrats ")

I think if I could only pick one favorite, this would be it. It's perfect!!!

Platinum

Love it, great capture. Congrats on the feature!!

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Awesome shot love it

Lovely shot, well done!!!

Great Shot!

really nice

Platinum

Very nice! Congrats on your Feature.

Lovely shot. Congratulations on being Featured.

nice !

Premium

great shot !

Beautiful!!

Lovely shot .. very appealing. Congratulations on your feature.

I love it!!

PRO+

Sweet.

Premium

Great shot!

Great accomplishment

Awesome shot, love it :)

nice peter

beautiful

Love this!

Platinum

What a beautiful capture! Congrats on the Feature!

just delightful!

Platinum

great shot

Beautiful shot.

amazing shot.

PRO+

Really love this, gorgeous back-lighting too :-D

Bahhh

Great shot.

beautiful shot!

just beautiful,great lighting too

A wonderful photo. I enjoy the lighting coming from the back gives the sheep/lamb an aura. great expression.

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Behind The Lens

Location

Edgar's Mission Farm Sanctuary - Australia

Time

Golden Hour - just before sunset

Lighting

I used backlighting from the sun, slightly off centre and was magically surprised by the pockets of light that were caught by the camera. These were thousands of little insects flying around which were beautifully backlit and created lovely pockets of light.

Equipment

Canon 1DX, 70-200mm f2.8 IS USM II

Inspiration

I had been seeing a lot of beautiful backlit photographs and decided i needed to try it out :)

Editing

I cropped the image, added some contrast and saturation, added a radial gradient and slight vignetting

In my camera bag

Canon 1DX, 70-200mm f2.8 IS USM II, 16-35mm f2.8, 24-70 f2.8, 100mm macro, 135mm f2, 600 EX-RT flash, external flash controller

Feedback

I would recommend getting to your location about an hour and a half before sunset and start experimenting by taking many different photos. When photographing animals I prefer to get down to their level by squatting or sitting on the floor. For this type of photograph I recommend a telephoto lens otherwise the light from the sun will cause havoc with your metering. Try spot metering so that your subject is metered for correctly and then darken the background in post. Looks for something new and creative and always enjoy the moment creating the photographs and have fun :)

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