The Plunge

[Jim Fenton]

This image isn't useful for a whole lot other than I was happy to capture it :)

This is a large crop (subject was about 20% of a horizontal frame) at high ISO and in lousy lighting.

The bird had been flying about 20' over the surface of the water into the wind and all of a sudden it rolled into a dive and I followed.

Nikon D300s, 500VR, TC14EII, ISO 1600, f7.1, 1/400, CW metering, +1.0 EV

[David Fletcher]

Love the diving pose Jim and the way it pops from the sea. Nicely done.

[arash_hazeghi]

crazy dive pose, looks like a missile! Good job catching this

[Randy Stout]

Jim:

You and the camera did well, under the trying conditons. ISO 1600 is looking pretty good here, detail pretty darn good for this crop and ISO.

Wonderful pose. Looks like a dart ready to hit the water.

Hope your weather perks up while the gannets are still about.

Cheers
Randy

[Daniel Cadieux]

The high ISO and huge crop are holding up well (at least for web presentation). This is the closest to a paper airplane I've seen any bird look like!! Very cool diving pose, and the breaking wave behind it is good bonus too.

[Stu Bowie]

Great aerodynamic diving posture Jim, and very well done for getting him in the frame. Im sure he was diving at a fair rate.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

beautiful diving pose,light,action!

[Chris van Rooyen]

Amazing posture, great sharpness for the low shutter speed. Well done in difficult light conditions!

[david cramer]

Great catch, Jim. And it looks quite good for iso 1600 on the D300s.

[Raymond Barlow]

an excellent diving shot Jim... sweet!

[Harshad Barve]

Excellent image , lovely diving pose here
TFS

[Clement Francis]

My god, what a timing and what an action frozen for all of us to see. Just too good

[Kiran Poonacha]

Great timing acheived here, the water BG gives a nice feel to this..

[Jay Gould]

Hi Jim, the image is very useful - we have all enjoyed your capture!

Assuming that you did a burst as compared to a single shot perfectly timed capture, what frame number was this is the capture burst?

Lovely exposure - you hit the whites perfectly.

[Marina Scarr]

What a great achievement to have captured this pose at this speed, Jim. It must have been exciting just to view this type of behavior/action.

[Jim Crosswell]

Great image under trying conditions.