I was virtually on the water pointing up to get this shot. I had no idea if I would even get any in the frame as that was pretty tricky while hanging upside-down looking through the viewfinder at 90 degrees and they are only about two - three feet above the water surface most of the time.
Reminds me of a C160 cargo plane coming in to land, fat belly and all, nothing like the jet they usually resemble. Quite remarkable how they adapt their shape.
I thought I could see some banding/posterisation in the jpg file - there is nothing I could see in the 16 bit TIFF file - it there a way to prevent that from happening when converting to jpg ?
This is nearly full frame (I think about 6500px x 4500px).
1/8000s iso4000 f8
A1 100-400GM
Attachment 192055
I was hoping for some better eye contact but it was tough getting anything in the frame from that position so I was pretty pleased to get this one as it is approaching the same detail as static images of similar sized birds - although I am sure some of you could extract more from the file than I have.
Definitely will have to figure out a better way to shoot from that position to be able to do so for extended periods.
Comments welcome as always.


