Sandwich Tern

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image at Ft. Desoto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida late September last year. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED image captured at 400mm
1/3200 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV +1/3 ISO 710 AWB
Post processed in Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop CC 2018
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Daniel Cadieux]

The tern is tack sharp as posted, well exposed, and I like the typical tern "bent wing" position. I do wish the BG was smoother though (although I do like the strips of colour), and there are a couple of what seems to be cloning evidence marks.

[Randy Stout]

Joe:

I like the exposure, wing position, slight angle towards us in the frame, good sense of motion, direction from the pose and horizontal bands in background.

Cheers

Randy

PS: Daniel and I were typing at the same time.

[Joseph Przybyla]

The tern is tack sharp as posted, well exposed, and I like the typical tern "bent wing" position. I do wish the BG was smoother though (although I do like the strips of colour), and there are a couple of what seems to be cloning evidence marks.

Hi Dan, not sure what you are seeing for cloning marks... nothing cloned out. Here is a edit and repost with the background smoothed... 100% noise reduction and negative clarity in Lightroom.

[Jim Crosswell]

I like how the tern fills the frame, sharpness, exposure and repost looks even better. Very well done Joe.

[Glenn Pure]

Such crisp detail, Joe. I was happy with the background as originally posted but the repost is fine too. The only thing I would say about that part of the image is the intensity of colour which I am now starting to associate with Nikon. If mine, I'd desaturate that background a whisker. The bird looks stunning with great wing position, angle to camera, colour and tonal range.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Hi Joe, just above the near wing looked like clone marks to me, apologies. I suppose that is one reason having more distance between the subject and BG helps in many cases. I do think the repost looks better though.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Hi Joe, just above the near wing looked like clone marks to me, apologies. I suppose that is one reason having more distance between the subject and BG helps in many cases. I do think the repost looks better though.

Hi Dan, thanks for coming back. Here is a edit with the saturation of the background lowered. The image was captured mid to late morning with the Florida sun, I think that is why the background was bright and vivid.