Osprey - Tigertail Beach

[Michael Pancier]

This osprey was being attacked by a swarm of least terns on Tigertail Beach this afternoon. The terns sent him my way for this shot. I had clipped 2 of the feathers on the lower wing. I cloned the tips from the upper wing and attached them to the lower as well as added some canvas.

40D + 400 5.6L
1/2500
f/5.6
manual mode
ISO 400

shot in late afternoon sun.

[Alfred Forns]

You are getting to be a PS Demon Mike !!!!

I like the intense look and fine bg !!! Excellent detail and good exposure Wings not fully out but like them as presented Would suggest a little more room Feels tight in frame !!!

[Nancy A Elwood]

Really love "the look"! Sharp with great detail. The only thing is a bit of the blue BG seems to be blotchy looking on my monitor. This has happened to me before and still cannot figure out why, but when I lightened up the blue sky, on mine, the blotches went away.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

Nice eye contact and great wing position,agree that looks a bit tight in the frame

[Doug Brown]

Love the eye contact. Pretty fancy PS work! Agree with above suggestions. The sky looks too blue for me too. Here's a repost that deals with the sky. I selected the sky, then reduced the saturation and increased the lightness. Next I applied a Gaussian blur to deal with the blotches. Didn't take the time to add any canvas, but that's easy enough.

[Bob Ettinger]

Great eye contact and nice light under the wings. I agree with Doug about the sky but that is a nit. Good job.

[Philip Lombard]

Excellent shot MIchael. Super lighting and sharpeness.

[Harold Davis]

I love the LOOK!! great capture! doug's repost is great. sky looks a lot better.

[Michael Pancier]

thanks for the tips Doug. I'm downloading the images to my desktop and will try same. thanks again