Been having a fun time trying to catch Terns in fun and different poses. This is a Elegant Tern doing a fish toss. They perform this technique to remove seaweed and debris from the just caught fish.
They climb up after they catch the fish, toss the fish up in the air, then skillfully catch it and then eat it on the wing. Pretty fun to try to capture. Hope you like it.
Thanks as always for looking and for your input. I appreciate it.
David
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Hi David, superb behavioural image, the text compliments & helps to have a greater understanding of the action. Love the BKG just wished the red/magenta wasn't around the lower wing LHS, what is it?Would love to have some of that light and to be able to shoot at a lowish ISO to gain a greater SS.
Hey Steve, Thanks.
That's part of the BG. I could have spent time trying to remove it but I didnt want to mess with it. Allot of times it looks worse when you try rebuild the BG around the primaries and then try to blend it out.
Thanks again
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Thanks Steve, I have come to your conclusion more and more. :)
Thanks Vishal.
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Beautiful! Just the bird on its own already makes the picture so the tossed-up fish is the cherry on the cake!Everything sharp and detailed - well done!
It doesn't get any better than this one Dave! Not an easy frame to capture, but you nailed it; dynamic wing position, great eye contact, and a perfectly placed fish.
This is without a doubt the best up-close fish toss I've seen anywhere. Congratulations on capturing this difficult behavior and actually getting the prey in the frame! Love the water droplets as well. The BG doesn't bother me one bit.
Hi Dave, you just keep turning them out - excellent work. What an incredible inflight pose, and capturing this behaviour is very well done. I really like the overall exposure, good detail on the far underwing, and overall nice and sharp. A fine image and congrats.
Thanks everyone for the comments. I'm glad you like the shot.
This is one of three in the sequence I caught. The other two have the fish even closer to the Tern but I liked this one best because of the "wicked cool pose" as Daniel so eloquently stated. Thanks again.
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Wicked Cool is is. An amazing pose, and beautifully captured. I won't ask how many frames you went through before catching this pose, with the perfect HA and the eye of the fish. Just catching terns in flight is difficult enough for most of us. This is truly amazing.
Wow! What a great pose you captured! It couldn't get any better than this. One of the best fish tossing shots I've ever seen. Love the vertical crop, pose, action and dual color BG. Even the fish gave you a perfect HA Very well done!
WOW! This is amazing.
You get 9.999/10 from me. I didn't give you a perfect 10 because of the BG area behind the wing which I noticed right away.
A contest winner as is but if I was framing it for the wall I would fix the BG area.
Gail
This is incredible! I'd give it an 11 on a scale of 1-10.
I experimented to see if the colored area couldn be fixed without cloning. (BTW, when I opened it in PS I noticed it doesn't have an embedded profile, although it does appear to have been converted to sRGB. The profile can help most browsers display the colors more accurately.)
I went to quick mask mode and painted this selection (see a sticky in ETL for more info). Then I made a Hue-Sat adjustment layer, which incorporated the selection as a mask, and played with changing the reds in both hue and sat. Didn't work any miracles, and neither did Selective Color, but it helped a little.
With that amount of color contamination removed, though, I'd bet you could select the feathers well enough with PS's Quick Selection tool, feather the edges a couple of pixels, and clone out the rest of the color. Failing that, Topaz ReMask is amazing for selecting an object.
Jaw dropping, remarkable capture. The story told adds to this brilliant image. The IQ is outstanding, and getting the fish toss as you've done……..Award winning.
Thanks everyone for the nice comments. I appreciate it.
Thanks Diane for taking the time to work on the image and for the education.
I think Gail is right, if I decide to print it I will fix the BG in the wing, otherwise it stays the way it is.
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Thanks again everyone for taking the time to comment on the Image. I'm really glad you liked it!
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