Caspian Tern Banking.

[Karl Egressy]

Thanks for looking.

Canon 1D MIV
Canon 400 f5.6 L
ISO 400
1/2500 s
f7.1

[arash_hazeghi]

nice pose and the fish adds to the capture. I like the wing position. Head looks a bit soft to me

[Karl Egressy]

nice pose and the fish adds to the capture. I like the wing position. Head looks a bit soft to me

Thank you Arash.
For reference purposes in regards to softness of the head, please refer to the following image.
Best Regards,
Karl.

[Randy Stout]

Karl:

Nice dorsal view, fish a plus, IQ effected by the large crop. Thanks for the breeze browser screen capture, it helps understand the image.

Cheers

Randy

[Loi Nguyen]

Excellent capture with fish, well exposed. Yes, the large crop affected the IQ. Loi

[David Salem]

Great shot Karl. Love the topside view with the fish. Nice feather detail considering the crop. Well done

[vishaljadhav]

wonderful pose Karl
excellent exposure

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Karl, great banking pose, and overall well exposed. His catch a bonus. I do like the layered BG too.

[arash_hazeghi]

Hi Karl,

the image you presented just shows the active AF sensor at the time of capture, however it does not necessarily mean the actual focus plane would be where the red frame is. Focus can be anywhere...


I agree the main issue here is the Huge crop (less than 10% of the frame). even if focus was tack sharp the IQ would suffer.


best

[Jeannean Ryman]

Really nice banking pose and the fish really adds a lot to the image. Well exposed and good composition. Hope you get one like this a bit closer next time!

[Marina Scarr]

Lovely flight pose, BG and 3-tier BG. Agree head doesn't look sharp but image looks pretty good considering the crop. Arash's point about focus point above is interesting/informative.

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent flight pose with beautiful wing position and great details in whites. Beautiful background on which bird pops up nicely.
Slight crop on the RHS will not harm the beauty of image.

Regards,
Satish.