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Rob Drummond
10-09-2009, 04:45 PM
A very hard bird to get right with its wheeling flight, change of background from sea to sky and the white on black plumage. This is my best effort from last week.

1d2n 300/f4 1.4X
ISO 400 f6.3 1/6400 exp comp -2/3
cropped from horizontal image

cheers
Rob
Ákos Lumnitzer
10-09-2009, 05:04 PM
Exposure looks good Rob. Beautiful pose mate. Well done! :)
Jim Fenton
10-09-2009, 05:54 PM
Stunning bird!

A tad more light on the face would have put this one over the top for me and perhaps a little selective eye work...but it is beautiful IMHO.
arash_hazeghi
10-09-2009, 06:10 PM
Nice shot, you managed to get detail in both whites and blacks, sharpness and pose is pretty good too. TFS
Arthur Morris
10-09-2009, 07:09 PM
EXP, detail in the blacks and whites, crop, wing position, and d-o-f all wonderful. What was the situation?
Tony Whitehead
10-09-2009, 07:29 PM
Lovely pose, detail and BG, Rob. Looks like a dust bunny or part of a very OOF bird on the right edge near the bottom of the frame.
Rob Drummond
10-09-2009, 07:48 PM
Thanks for the comments. Oof bird Tony, thankyou. We were out on a pelagic off the south east coast of South Australia. The shelf is about 40km offshore. Not too rough but unsteady enough to make tracking anything that wasn't flying in a predicatble manner quite entertaining.

cheers
Rob
Brian Barcelos
10-09-2009, 07:52 PM
I'm enjoying your tubenoses and hope you have more to share. Great job tracking and getting the exposure spot on. I'll have to go on a pelagic photo shot some time as I really love the look of these birds. Congrats
Nate Chappell
10-09-2009, 11:06 PM
That's a beauty Rob, great exposure and top side view!
Paul Randall
10-10-2009, 12:45 AM
Very nice Rob. Great job of exposing this bird well. You are tempting this land lover to get his feet wet!!
Stu Bowie
10-10-2009, 01:25 AM
Great banking angle Rob, and you nailed the exposure on the blacks and whites. Comp wise, I would maybe move him up in the frame. I like the hint of clouds in the BG. Well captured.
Gyorgy Szimuly
10-10-2009, 07:41 AM
Hey, this is incredible. Knowing how hard to get them you have to be proud of this image.
Very well done. I might add a slight contrast as the blacks look to be noisy by the shadows adjustment (or less would make same result).

Szimi