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    Tim Vidrine
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    Default Yellow-crowned Night Heron eating crawfish

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    I watched this heron at Lake Martin eat 5 crawfish before I was able to get series in the open. Here is one in the series where it was flipping the crawfish after pulling off the legs and claws.

    Would fill flash have helped to freeze the action better?


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    I'm pretty weak on flash, so I'll leave that to the experts, but personally, I think that the tiny bit of motion blur on the crawfish adds a lot to the image.

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    Hi Tim,

    Flash as main light will help you freeze action. Not as fill.

    Shame on the membrane in the eye, they tend to do this on the best frame :(

    One ambitious bird!! I would try and blur the upper background. A short tutorial on how to do this is posted in the Digital Workflow Forum.

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    I don't mind the motion blur on the flipped prey, but too bad it is slightly apparent on the Heron. I like the nictating membrane here...all part of the feeding behaviour.

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    Great action, Tim. Higher shutter speed would have been good, but ISO 800 might have been pushing it. Too bad about the membrane.

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    Awesome shot great timing and nice details....

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    Hi Tim,

    What a lovely capture, the blur or movement helps tell the story. If I were to use flash was to lit up your subject's colors and texture but not as main light.

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    This is really neat. I like the action. I'd take a bit off the top.

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    I agree with Axel. The 1/250 of a sec, is the reason for the blur. Some days you just don't get enough light for sharp, action shots. :)

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