All Shook Up...

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image of a Royal Tern at Ft Desoto north beach in Pinellas County, Florida. Terns that are feeding have a couple behaviours that are predictable most times. If they catch a fish they fly up and will flip the fish to position the head for swallowing, if they miss catching a fish they will shake and shimmy to shed water from their feathers. This tern missed and is shaking to shed water from it's feathers. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED HH
1/3200 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 640 Auto 1 WB, image captured at 400mm
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2021 and Neat Image for noise reduction when needed
Cropped for composition and presentation

[David Roach]

Love the water action, nice and sharp. Minor nit, forehead a little hot (or no details). Cool canvas overall. TFS

[Ivan Sjogren]

Wonderfully captured behavior shot. Beautiful light, background and composition too with all those droplets to the left.
The forehead does indeed look hot but for me the overall problem is the lack of details and crunchy look. I can see clusters of pixels. I suspect an issue with Neat Image or something to do with your noise reduction. Maybe the original file wasn't sharp enough either.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Love the water action, nice and sharp. Minor nit, forehead a little hot (or no details). Cool canvas overall. TFS

Hi David, thank you for viewing and commenting. I know originally the forehead was not hot/clipped because I always check the bright areas and then use the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom to burn those area and adjust the white to between 92 to 94 percent. That being said I did raise the contrast after converting to a TIFF which might have raised the values of the white in those areas.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Wonderfully captured behavior shot. Beautiful light, background and composition too with all those droplets to the left.
The forehead does indeed look hot but for me the overall problem is the lack of details and crunchy look. I can see clusters of pixels. I suspect an issue with Neat Image or something to do with your noise reduction. Maybe the original file wasn't sharp enough either.

Hi Ivan, thank you for viewing and commenting. After reading your comments I pretty much knew what caused what your were seeing and commenting about. I had used the Dehaze slider in Lightroom which raises the contrast and I know at times too much contrast can kill detail. Here is a edit and repost correcting that, hopefully it is better. Thanks again...

[arash_hazeghi]

cool pose, I think there might be more details in the whets to extract where it looks a bit flat

TFS

[John Mack]

I like the pose and all those water drops. The bird does look pretty wet. Most of the shake offs i see the bird has already shook most of the water off.