Tern Portrait

[Kambiz Shoarinejad]

Stopped by Bolsa Chica in Huntington Beach, CA, a bit before sunset yesterday and I got lucky enough to meet Arash there, which was a pleasant surprise...
Unfortunately, I could not get any in-flight Tern shots worthy of being posted here. So I will just go ahead and post this portrait frame. Still not that great, but at least I liked the bird's pose and the catch eye... :S3:

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Nikon D5, 400/2.8G + TC-14E II, 560mm, f/5, 1/1600 sec, 2500 ISO, handheld, processed in LR and PS CC.

[John Mack]

The pose is nice. Like the water drops on the head. Light looks pretty nice.

[David Roach]

Sharp right where it needs to be with great EXP in both white and blacks. Not so in love with perch. TFS

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

Nice Image. It looks a bit unnatural to me. I would take off the blue color cast to make it better.

Like the feet. I also would look for a different perch.

TFS

[gail bisson]

Agree with everything Krishna has said,
Gail

[arash_hazeghi]

Hi Kambiz, it was good running into you on the famous Bolsa bridge, I like the close up details and the nice HA of the turn, the perch wasn't ideal but I couldn't resist taking a few shots myself, perhaps will post one later

cheers
Arash