Least Tern Fly Off

[Joe Senzatimore]

Caught it just as it lifted off after bathing in a small tidal pool.
Cropped for comp.

800 ISO f5.5 at 1/2500th
Inc. metered
manual Flash at 1/4 power

[arash_hazeghi]

cool action and sweet light looks the critical focus was on the water splash, you may also want to tone down the whites in the face.

[christopher galeski]

nice take off shot,like the wing position,and the water splash,agree about the focus,but still like it.thanks.

[Jim Fenton]

Hard to tell definitively on this laptop, but it does appear as though the point of focus was at the splash / feet.

The whites on the underside of the neck and face look overexposed to me....but again, it could be this laptop screen.

I think the DOF was a bit too thin here as I would have liked to have had more of the wings in focus as well.