Magnificent Frigate bird-Hooptie Deux III

[arash_hazeghi]

This image was made in Tampa Bay, it's a female Frigate bird.

http://www.stanford.edu/%7Eahazeghi/Photos/birds/frigate%20bird.jpg

5DMKII + 500 f/4 f/5.6 1/4000sec ISO 400. hand hold from Capitan Shadle's boat (many thanks!)

Hope you like it.

[Troy Lim]

Great shot Arash. Like the head against the feather.
One of the birds I would like the get. I heard there is an island full of them. Never been. Hopefully soon.

[arash_hazeghi]

Great shot Arash. Like the head against the feather.
One of the birds I would like the get. I heard there is an island full of them. Never been. Hopefully soon.

Thanks Troy, they are on an island, location and boat ride was courtesy of capitan Shadle.

[Stu Bowie]

Excellent sharp detail Arash, and I like the separation of the feathers. I like the overall posture too. Well captured.

[Jim Neiger]

Sweet image, Arash. I like the pose and windswept feathers. Perfect exposure too. Well done. Looks like you may have missed a couple of spots between the bird's body and its left wing when you selected the bg for processing. Also the area around torn feathers on its upper left wing.

[arash_hazeghi]

Sweet image, Arash. I like the pose and windswept feathers. Perfect exposure too. Well done. Looks like you may have missed a couple of spots between the bird's body and its left wing when you selected the bg for processing. Also the area around torn feathers on its upper left wing.


Thanks for pointing out Jim, good call will fix these soon.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Cool landing pose, sharpness and head angle. I might saturate the bird a tad more. Could this be a juvenile bird?

[James Shadle]

Yes this is a Juvi.
Probably a fledgling from this season.

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Congratulations on a beautiful flight image of this species. They are usually so high and almost impossible to capture. Excellent detail and the flight pose is awesome arash.

[Ricardo Rodriguez]

Hi Arash, I love the details on the wings, especially the left wing. Gorgeous image!

[Harshad Barve]

this one is real beautiful image Arashbhai
TFS

[Lorant Voros]

Arash. It is a very pleasing image of this bird. It looks like you wased the plumage and put a hair dryer there:-)...so beautiful. Pose, compo, light, eveything is pretty much as good as it gets for me. Hats off, man.

Lorant

[arash_hazeghi]

Thanks everybody for nice comments

I fixed the are between primaries and also added slight warming filter to the feathers

here is the repost

http://www.stanford.edu/%7Eahazeghi/Photos/birds/frigate%20bird%20incmoning%20low.jpg

Thanks again