Puffin in flight

[Alex Becker]

Hi all,

Another puffin from the Farne Islands. Taken at Staple Island over the grass fields in light overcast. Slight crop, light NR to the BG, sharpened. I really have been enjoying the 300 PF for these type of scenarios and will post a short 'field review' of the lens based on shooting these puffins in a couple days if allowed.

Camera: Nikon D500
Lens: 300 f/4 PF
Specs: 1/4000 ISO 1250 f/4

Thanks for looking and commenting on prior posts!
Alex

[Bill Dix]

Another great puffin-in-flight, against a lovely green BG, and with all the sand eels facing the right direction. Exposure looks good. I'm surprised you kept the aperture at f/4, but you can't complain about the results.

[William Dickson]

Well done Alex, not easy nailing these guys in front of any BG other than a light sky. Lovely flight pose. nice detail, and the BG works. And, very well done on the six head angles :S3: Nice one

Will

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Alex, you certainly got you eye in on these guys. Agree with bit about shooting at f/4, but it appears you got away with it. My only reservation is the sand eels, if the silvery skin isn't blown then I would try to retrieve some more tonal range which would overall help. Just a gut feeling, but to me the image appears a bit bright overall, I might just pull it back a fraction, don't just drop the Exposure as it will flatten things too much, do it back in LR. Remember Alex, certain controls in LR are more refined than using the same ones in PS.

TFS
Steve

[John Mack]

Nice green background like how you can see the eyes of most of the eels. The composition is nice as well.

[Isaac Grant]

Details and pose are nice. Really like the green background. Colors are a bit washed out to me.

[Alex Becker]

Thanks all, I think f/4 was mostly a function of just quickly light, once things settled down a bit more I was at f/4.5 or f/5 I think for the rest of the day. I don't think the sand eels are blown so I can take another look at them, and try to bring a bit more depth to the colors as well. Thanks again, much appreciated, best,