A small treat from SoCal

[arash_hazeghi]

I spent the last few days in SoCal with Jim and Doug as guest instructor for West Coast Flight workshop. We covered handhold flight technique and image processing and it was fun! No shortage of challenging subjects to practice. We had some good light this AM and I liked this frame with golden light and skimmer against color.

Hope you like it


1DX 600II f/5 1/2500sec ISO 800 handheld.

[David Salem]

Beautiful skimmer shot Arash. Great light and I always love a non blue BG, so good job. Wonderful exposure and detail also.
Glad you guys got some good light this morning as Sunday morning was less than ideal. It was pretty good this evening though. It was nice meeting you, Jim and Doug on Sunday as I was camping there for the weekend and ran into you guys.
David

[mohammad reza shahab]

Beautiful flight pose, Great light and BG,Wonderful exposure and detail.

[shane shacaluga]

Super flight pose and good details on both blacks and whites. The eye and beak are really sharp

BG colour is great to

TFS!

[MohsenVahedipour]

Great details both in blacks & whites. Excellent IQ & BG Arash.

[Doug Brown]

Thanks for your excellent contributions to the workshop Arash! You've got yourself a quintessential Bolsa image here! Perfect!

[Grace Scalzo]

Superb exposure and processing which gives rise to all those details. Great subject and color palette and just enough motion in the very tips of the wings to keep the image from feeling static. There are so many skimmer images out there, this one really stands alone !

[Jim Crosswell]

Excellent image Arash! I like the wing position, flight angle, exposure, IQ and BG.

[Joe Senzatimore]

Light and BG are killer.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Pose, light, colours look fantastic. Perfect sharpness as per usual too.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Arash, sweet light, sharp, and I eally like the flight pose. Its always great to capture BIF against a different BG than sky. Well captured.

[Gabriela Plesea]

Exceptional image Arash! I can only add my congratulations, everything else has already been said above! Very dramatic background!

Kind regards,

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Stunning Arash, everything works so well, love the dark BG, make the bird pop so nicely.

[gail bisson]

This is beautiful Arash.
Love the light and the color palette.
So tack sharp.
Wewll done,
Gail

[Robert Holguin]

Wonderful shot.
The light and the background are just lovely.
Exposed very well and your usual superb details.
Very well done.

[Jeannean Ryman]

Everything has already been said, so I'll just chime in with "great job"! I love that light and background color. It takes a "tern in flight" shot to another level.

[Randy Stout]

Arash:

Splendid: colors,techs, pose, bg.

Only possible area for tweaking, you could try to tease out a bit more detail from the darks on the back wing.

Congrats.

Cheers

Randy

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

A very nice bird and wing pose. The morning light brings good memories and I agree with Randy about getting more details on darkest part of wings.

[dankearl]

The BG is stunning!
I agree, about the perfect Skimmer photo.
Very nice, Arash...

[nrohrbacker]

I really like the different color BG than the usual for this species. Awesome detail as usual. Great capture.

[Girish Prahalad]

awesome image!! nothing more to say than what has already been said

[Satish Ranadive]

Every thing has been said about this marvelous image. Love the flight pose with nicely stretched wings,beautiful lights,great dark BG,lovely color scheme.
Love the wonderful IQ.

Regards,
Satish.

[Frank Schauf]

Perfect comp and bg, nice work.

[arash_hazeghi]

thanks everyone for the nice comments