Juvenile common tern portrait

[Grace Scalzo]

Young birds are among my most favorite birds to photograph with their fresh feathers and interesting behavior. Took me quite a few clicks to get the pose that I was after as he was moving around so fast begging for a fish.

Thank you for looking at my picture and as always for your thougthful comments. I appreciate them all.

1/1250, f10, iso800
Canon 1DX, 600f4 + 1.4tc + ground pod

[Lorant Voros]

Beautiful! Sweet light, nice detail and open beak, nice plumage and I love the eye and the reflection. Well done.

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Wonderful portrait. Very nice detail and couldn't ask for a better BG.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Grace, briiliant IQ, and not to mention the soft light. Overall well exposed on the juvie, and of course, the visible tongue takes this up a few notches. The two tone BG works well too.

[gail bisson]

Loving this series!
gail

[Marina Scarr]

Terrific light, colors and details, Grace. The calling pose is a huge plus. These guys sure do a lot of hollering and begging when they are young.

[vishaljadhav]

A light to dream of, superb IQ i love it
the open beak and the tongue makes it special. The BG is superb
great series of images you have here.

[dankearl]

The IQ is so good the bird looks alive on my screen.
The catchlight is perfect for the photo, anywhere but dead center would have thrown off the portrait.
Congrats on working for this and how well it turned out.

[nrohrbacker]

Nice detail and I like the 'two tone' BG. Good choice of DOF to get all the feathers sharp at close range.

[MohsenVahedipour]

Wonderful light, pose, IQ & BG. Very well done.

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Spectacular image Grace, I love the composition, the calling pose with tongue showing and the crisp detail. Very nicely done.

[Girish Prahalad]

beauty! superb calling pose, details, exp & BG

[Joe Senzatimore]

You just keep getting better. Fine detail and killer BG.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

I love capturing begging tern chicks too. Great timing on the pose and the two tone bg is really nice

[Satish Ranadive]

Grace;
Excellent image of cute little one with open beak and tongue in very sweet light.
Absolutely superb colors and details.Wonderful two tone BG and beautiful composition.

Regards,
Satish.