I've been shooting a lot of tern flight shots recently and I liked both the wing position (unusual) and the fanned tail feathers. I wish the bird had been calling, but you can't have everything all of the time I guess :)
The bird was cutting across the grain of a stiff west wind, which brought it right across my location as I tracked it in.
Nikon D300, 500 AFSII, ISO 640, f8, CW metering with +.7 EV, NearUniWB Preset
Love the pose and the sharpness. BTW, you might consider entering your previous post in the BBC Contest next year...
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fine capture Jim......you have creatively pushed tonal range and sharpening to the limit.
Very nice work.......looking forward to more of this series, any more doubles?
I do have some more doubles, but I need to shoot some others to rival the one from Saturday. I'm going to take a bit of time each time I'm at this location to watch for these situations to develop.
As far as the tonality of this image, I've been using a NearUniWB preset on all of my photography lately and it makes an enormous difference in being able to capture whites much brighter and expanding the overall breadth of the DR of the subject. It takes a bit of getting used to relative to EV compensation use, but once I realized that I'd need a fair bit more EV compensation now that the histogram was showing more balanced color channels, it all began to fall into place and I really like what it gves me as an end result.
Common Tern in Flight
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