Little Tern

[Luis Patacao]

Not sure if this is the correct translation for this specie (Andorinha do mar anã), if some can confirm i appreciate.

Little tern in flight after fishing for the female. Several females were close to the chicks on a muddy soil as the males were fishing.



Andorinha do mar anã - Em voo por Patacão, no Flickr


D7000 + Sigma at 500mm f 7.1

Comments and critiques appreciated.

[David Kenny]

Not sure on the species. Nice and sharp great job freezing the wings. Nice catch light in the eye and you did a great job on the whites.

- dave

[Luis Patacao]

Not sure on the species. Nice and sharp great job freezing the wings. Nice catch light in the eye and you did a great job on the whites.

- dave

Thanks for the feedback Dave.

[Diane Miller]

Yes, a good catch, for you and the bird! It's not easy to shoot birds in flight -- good job! I like that the eye shows up well -- it is easy for it to be invisible in the dark band of feathers.

The bird has a subtle warm tone, but that could have been the light. My impression is that there might be a little more detail to be found in the whites -- they look a bit flat. There is a sticky here that has some information.

The image does not have an embedded profile, although it looks like you converted to sRGB. You'll have a better chance of more people seeing the colors correctly if you embed the profile.

[Luis Patacao]

Yes, a good catch, for you and the bird! It's not easy to shoot birds in flight -- good job! I like that the eye shows up well -- it is easy for it to be invisible in the dark band of feathers.

The bird has a subtle warm tone, but that could have been the light. My impression is that there might be a little more detail to be found in the whites -- they look a bit flat. There is a sticky here that has some information.

The image does not have an embedded profile, although it looks like you converted to sRGB. You'll have a better chance of more people seeing the colors correctly if you embed the profile.

Thanks for the feedback. The tern was photographed at about 2 hours before the sunset possibly creating the warm tone. As for the whites recovery i`ve seen your tutorial but i believe thats a more recent version from LR, my version 3.5 doesn`t has those whites sliders. Nonetheless i could have use luminosity masks for the super brights, and i will do it on this one.

Thanks Diane.

[Luis Patacao]

Tried to edit the original post but couldn`t find the right way to do it. This is the repost after the recovery of the whites in the tern.
Does this looks better?


Andorinha do mar anã - Em voo por Patacão, no Flickr

[Diane Miller]

It looks like the light tones have become a little darker and more cream-colored in the RP. I don't see much difference in detail in the lights but that may be the way the light was on smooth feathers. Either version is technically OK and works well for me -- it's whatever you like that is correct in this case.

Getting detail in light tones can be difficult and if you go too far it looks artificial, so I think you did well here.