Puffin in flight

[Alex Becker]

Hi all,

While waiting for some of the winter migrants -- another puffin in flight from the Farne Islands. In post, cropped slightly, standard LR sliders, increased contrast on the BG, lifted the eye slightly, NR on the BG, sharpened, added a couple points to both the black and whites of the bird. BG is cliff, ocean, and sky. Not sure what the fish in the mouth is -- much larger than the sandeels and I've only seen puffins with a single one of these fish as opposed to their signature mouthful.

Camera: Nikon D500
Lens: 200-500mm f/5.6 at 500mm
Specs: 1/2500 ISO 1400 f/5.6

Thanks for looking and commenting on prior posts!
Alex

[gail bisson]

Good incoming flight pose. Nice and sharp.I would bump up the saturation in the oranges and reds slightly as the bill looks dull.
I wonder what is in his mouth? I found myself focused more on trying to figure out what the prey was, rather than looking at the image.
Gail

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Alex, lovely angled flight pose towards you, and I agree with Gail to increase some saturation on the beak.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Beak looks flat as mentioned, otherwise it is quite nice IMO.
Great angle of flight and the diagonal of the OOF BG works well too.
Great stuff! I do have a soft spot for this kind of soft light.

[Alex Becker]

Thanks all -- I'll pump up the beak a bit more to bring out some more color. Gail -- I spent some time googling around re: the fish but no luck so far...does look very unusual especially from this angle.