Arctic Tern

Arctic Tern
Chugach National Forest, Alaska
D800, 500 4 VR, ISO 1000, f/4.5, 1/640 one round of NR on BG
I am still getting a handle on processing these files to jpeg sharp without intoducing excessive noise.

Now that is a very nice enviroment photo!
Super pose, the habitat is lovely (and more defined),
no noise at all, what a D800 at iso1000 should look like.
Beautiful!

nice image,love the BG,flight pose and detail good,but I see some noise in the BG,but when I look close,it looks like digital artifacts.

excellent BG and a nice pose with great exposure

Great composition with the bird positioned in the frame, and especially like the oof reeds. Nice and sharp particularly at relatively low shutter speed, a lot to like about this one John.

Beautiful image! You were very lucky to get it sharp at such slow shutter speed.

John:

Very nice environmental shot, reeds perfect degree of sharpness for me, nice pose.

I might use a very light green clone stamp on the brown patch on far right, and just for giggles, try a version with the reed touching his tail shortened up a bit :S3:

Cheers

Randy

Hi John, the best flight pose from this series, and as always nicely separated from the BG. I like the OOF reeds at the bottom of the frame.

John - great flight pose and sharp. I too like the reeds, habitat and bg. Great job.

TFS,
Rachel

Lovely image. Love the flight pose and the vegetation in this one. Quite artistic.

John, excellent image. Love the light, the banking pose and the setting. TFS

Fantastic, John. I love the white and how it pops against that gorgeous background, the fanned out tail, the angle towards us. Really a lovely image.

Wicked pose and love the enviro feel to this image. Sweet image and great job getting him sharp at that low SS.

Wonderful composition.