Forster's Tern after a successful dive

[Binu John]

1DX + 600mm f/4 L IS II
1/3200, f/8, ISO 800
Cropped vertically. Added canvas to the top and fixed the tip of the last two clipped primary feathers. Cloned out a few distracting water droplets.

[arash_hazeghi]

Nice dynamic pose Binu! I like the water droplets, and the small fish. Perfect exposure. I would reduce sharpening on the head a bit as there are some jagged artifacts around the head. You can also post 900 pixels tall for better viewing.

TFS

[Karl Egressy]

A real beauty with the wings up fish in the beak and showing the forky tail, Binu.

[Petros Petrou]

This is a very cool image. I like the wing position, fish, water droplets and eye contact. Exposure looks perfect too. TFS.

[Joe Galkowski]

Simply beautiful. The perfect moment. The extended wings make the shot.

[Markus Jais]

Wonderful shot. Perfect wing position. The water drops and the fish add a lot.

Markus

[Daniel Cadieux]

These types of tern images are not easy to pull off! Great processing work to salvage it...well worth it. Nice splashing action and wings fully up. Exposure, colours, details all look good. I'm really liking the large drop and its shadow on the wing.

[gail bisson]

Great action shot ! Requires excellent skills to nail this moment.
Love the water droplets. Exposure looks good and excellent PP work on the wing tip repair ( something I have yet to master)
gail

[Richard Flack]

Great action shot Binu. The water droplets really give this a sense of movement and action. And the wing position and HA is super. The fish in his mouth is an extra bonus. Well done man!

[Marina Scarr]

You have all the elements in this image to make it special.

[shane shacaluga]

Lovely pose in great light. Good action shot

TFS

[Binu John]

Thanks everyone!

Thanks Arash! I re-size to 800 pixels height as I use a 15" laptop for PP. If I go over that size, I've to scroll to view the full image.

Nice dynamic pose Binu! I like the water droplets, and the small fish. Perfect exposure. I would reduce sharpening on the head a bit as there are some jagged artifacts around the head. You can also post 900 pixels tall for better viewing.

TFS

[Raybel Robles]

Superb image! I really like the action shot with all the water splash and I love that the Tern is actually looking at the camera with the fish in his/her bill! Well done!

[Satish Ranadive]

All has been said about this magnificent take off pose with full up wings, great HA, fish in the beak, beautiful blues and composition.
Water droplets looks wonderful.

Regards,
Satish.