Forster's Tern #2 -- Scanning for Breakfast

[Bill Dix]

Another from Brigantine last Friday morning, showing the dorsal view with the lovely cinnamon plumage. This juvie is a different individual from the one in my previous post. This one decided to get his own fish instead of harassing the Common Tern.

D7000, 500f4, ISO 640, 1/4000s @ f/7.1 manual, Gitzo and Mongoose.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice BG, and I like the "looking down" for prey pose. Is\deally thew near wing would have been aven lower for a more elongated "banking" pose, but this is fine as is too. Looks to be a tad ark overall perhaps?

[Bill Dix]

Nice BG, and I like the "looking down" for prey pose. Is\deally thew near wing would have been aven lower for a more elongated "banking" pose, but this is fine as is too. Looks to be a tad ark overall perhaps?

Yes, Daniel, I also wished for slightly more of the near wing showing. And now that you mention it, it does seem a little dark. Here's a repost with 7 points of brightness added to bring the white rump up to around 230. Thanks.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Bill this works nice . I like the pose and the overall colors/contrast . Pleasing BGK rounding this up.
RP works better in brightness , but i would go even a tad brighter .

TFS Andreas

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Bill, I like this view showing off the full top of the wingspan, and the tern is popping nicely against the two tone BG. Your repost has turned out well. Well captured.

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Like this image a lot, Bill. I do like the levels you brought up in the repost. Also like the detail achieved and the small trailing drops of water from a previous dive. Very nice BG too.




Geoffrey

[gail bisson]

This is "deja vu all over again!"
Your pose is slightly different than Geoffreys'. Both images seem a bit dark to me and before I viewed your image I suggested that Geoffrey go brighter!
i like the repost and I would go a bit brighter but mask out the rump so it doesn't get blown out.
The eye looks good.
I do agree with your self critique about the near wing but I would still be thrilled to have this in my files,
Gail

[Sridatta Chegu]

Really love the "curious" look down pose. Excellent details too. Great shot!

[Bill Dix]

Thanks everyone. I hadn't realized quite how dark it was until I pushed the Brightness slider way to the right and saw the improvement. Here's a second repost.