I had a couple of fun outings with Common Goldeneyes a couple of weeks ago. This was from the first, rather unexpected of those sessions. This female came racing in from around and island and as I was tracking her head0on she suddenly banked hard and back around the other side of the island. This was horizontally photographed in-camera, with both wing tips just barely fitting in. Adding canvas top and bottom and cropping in both sides to transform it into a vertical was easy as snap with the high-key background
Canon 7DII + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC III, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/1250s., f/5.6, ISO 1600, cropped as described above, a rather heavy blue cast removed.
Once again I am so envious. I saw about 500 of these today but they were about half a mile off shore!!! Great banking pose, great details and works really well against that background. Very nice indeed.
Killer pose, gorgeous high key, and sharp. The belly and the underwings look a tad overdone (jangly...) to me. Did you apply any NIK Detail Extractor?
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Artie, I may have done one pass too many of a low opacity burn tool to bring details back on the belly (the file was processed a few weeks back and forgot to mention that in the details). The wings are pretty much as in the raw file, save for usual contrast/saturation tweaks.
High-key Banking Common Goldeneye.
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