Screaming Forster's Tern

[Indranil Sircar]

This was taken earlier in the summer. The settings were -

40D, Sigma 50-500mm @ 500mm hand held
1/1600 sec, f/8 Mode: Av Metering: Evaluative Exp comp: -1/3 ISO: 400

Darkened bg and reduced noise, applied usm. Your C&C will be appreciated.

~ Indranil

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the pose, open beak and composition but the bird looks quite soft on my monitor.

[Dr.Pranay Rao Juvvadi]

I like the pose, open beak and composition but the bird looks quite soft on my monitor.


Ditto Axel. I think the focus is on the water.
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[Indranil Sircar]

Thanks. Added a bit more sharpening... here is a repost.

[arash_hazeghi]

Nice pose and wing position, I would leave more space on the left and top, also to me seems like the birds was slightly OOF (focus seems to be behind the bird)

[Jim Fenton]

I do like the pose but it does look as if the point of focus was below and to the right a bit?

Also, while I'm not as picky about rotation as some, the water really makes me want to lean to the left :)

[Indranil Sircar]

Thanks for all the comments..

Jim, good point on the cw rotation. I see it. You are right about the center focus being slight lower to the right.

[Harshad Barve]

nice pose , beautiful BG and open beak ,
TFS

[Indranil Sircar]

Thank you Harshad.