Whiskered Tern

[Girish Prahalad]

Made with a Canon 550D + Sigma 150-500. Handheld from a drifting boat.
F6.3 | ISO 400 | SS 1/1000 @ 500mm. Av Mode | Eval
Levels | Crop | USM | NR on BG.

Comments & critiques most welcome.

[Randy Stout]

Girish:

Well exposed, sharp, open bill, nice background, all good!

I might try a version with the perch toned down just a bit, so it recedes a bit more visually.

cheers

Randy

[David Salem]

Nice looking shot of this calling Tern. Exposed well and lots of great feather detail and the BG is very nice. Well done

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Girish, simple, but very effective, however often simplicity can be the hardest part to achieve.

I like the tilt of the perch, however I agree with Randy, toning down the rock would help, try running a Luminosity adj layer on this part only, if it's too strong you can knock it back with the Opacity slider and mask. Nice fine detail in the legs & plumage. Tricky, but I might ease back on the NR because you have good detail & sharpness it can jar a little I've found with the very 'smoothness' of the BKG, keeping NR to the minimum tends to work, however you can always adjust if need be.

TFS
Steve