Sandwich Tern

[William Dickson]

Canon 1D Mk4
f/4 500mm
f/5.6
1/1600
ISO 800

I captured this Sandwich Tern, this evening, from my balcony overlooking the harbour(whilst wearing my pyjamas :w3). The BG is the sea.

Thanks for looking.

Will

[Daniel Cadieux]

A fun way to photograph birds! Good comp and nice BG. Interesting to see the lower mandible longer the upper. Looks like there is some subject motion blur here.

[Karl Egressy]

So you can call it a "backyard bird" as we call all the birds we can see from our place. Excellent flight shot, Will.

[keith mitchell]

Will does wearing pyjamas help? Excellent flight shot.

Keith.

[William Dickson]

Hi Keith, thanks for that. Its been raining constantly up here for days now, so there was only one thing for it. Use the balcony as a hide :w3

Will

[Geoff Newhouse]

Good action shot and must be nice to shoot from the deck with a drink in hand!! I think there is a bit of motion blur in the image but not too bad. Otherwise, great clean background and a fairly dynamic flight pose...actually the small amount of blur sort of adds to the sense of movement.

TFS
Geoff

[Jonathan Ashton]

Nice shot Will, it doesn't look entirely sharp on close scrutiny - what's the raw file like at 100%?

[William Dickson]

Thanks for the comments guys. Yer prob right Jon, it was a fairly large crop. Nothing quite near the balcony Yet :w3 Yes it is a lovely place to capture birds Geoff, but different story on Saturday, I am off to the Outer Hebrides with my wife for 10 days. :S3: The weather forecast dont look good :e3


Thanks for looking :cheers: Will

[adrian dancy]

Well nailed William but unfortunately the subject blur/movement is a bit too much. For my own taste I am perhaps a little forgiving in subject movement department but here I think it is an issue...I'm sorry but I am just being honest. I recently did peregrines at 1/1600 sec, with such a relatively slow shutter speed I do not 'track' the birds. I try to over compensate the panning in the direction the bird flies in and hope the focus hits. This method is counter intuitive but it works for me. I get less frames but the ones I make are more likely to be sharper IMHO.