Arctic Tern

[John Ippolito]

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.

[dankearl]

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!

[christopher galeski]

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.

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent BG and a nice pose with great exposure

[PhilCook]

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.

[Ofer Levy]

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

[Randy Stout]

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

Cheers

Randy

[Stu Bowie]

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.

[Rachel Hollander]

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

TFS,
Rachel

[Marina Scarr]

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

[Tom Redd]

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

[Melissa Groo]

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.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

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

[Mark Young]

Wonderful composition.