what "wicked" wings!

[annmpacheco]

Its tern season, with displaying, wooing a mate, and scrapes for nests... Here is a common tern pair: incoming and its mate. He had been returning to this rock with fish that he would present to her but struck out this time, or maybe had a snack on the way home.
DPP, cropped vertical, levels, lifted the blacks, sharpened, NR

1Dx
600mm
ISO 2000
5.6
1/2500

[gail bisson]

Very cool wing position-reminds me of a butterfly.
Great behavior captured and very sharp. Nice that you can see a bit of the eye.
I would burn the whites on the log and warm the image up very slightly.( was it an overcast day?)
Great image.
If you have NIK Efex Pro I would would some Detail extractor and Tonal Contrast 50/50 then put on a layer and use the opacity brush at 10-20% on the wings

[Isaac Grant]

I love the wing position of the front bird and how the rear bird is checking out the other one. Good advice from Gail re the whites and NIK. Image also has a blue cast. Just go to hue/saturation and lower the blue channel maybe -10 or 20 and that should clear that right up.

[John Mack]

Killer wing position. Really like the pose on the seated bird. Nice one.

[David Policansky]

what a wonderful image. Congratulations.

[William Dickson]

Lovely looking frame. Fab pose. lovely detail on blacks and whites. I agree that there is a slight blue cast. An easy fix, as Isaac mentioned.

Will

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

Beautiful.

Love the wing position. Nicely captured.

I agree with the blue cast which can easily be removed.

TFS

[Glenn Conlan]

Great comments above, the timing on this was fantastic. Keep them coming Ann

[Juan Tolentino]

Lovely image, I love those wings!


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[David Salem]

Love this one Ann!! What a Pose!! Never seen a pose like this and the symmetry of the wings is mirror like! Wow factor, Big time!! This is my kind of frame! Been crazy busy but I will try to work on it tonight. Killer frame!