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    Took this on Grimsey Island Iceland. I don't think you could find a better place on earth to photograph puffins. Plenty of opportunities and very few people. Processed with Dpp 4,Topaz, Photoshop. Comments and critiques appreciated.
    Canon R5
    70/200 2.8
    M 200 mm 2.8
    1/3200
    ISO 250

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    Kevin:

    Very nicely captured. Mouth full of fish, great display of the colorful feet, strong sense of motion from the wing blur, well framed with room to fly into. The blue of the sky works well with the oranges.
    They must have a very fast wing flap rate to have this much blur at that shutter speed.

    Thanks for sharing

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    Randy they are bullets. I think they can do 50mph. This is shot off a cliff with the ocean in the background. Which was neat because you got lots of different colors depending on the sun reflection or just different areas of the ocean near or far.

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    Lovely shot Kevin. They must have been pretty close to use the 70-200. At that iso you could have doubled shutter speed to stop the wing blur- if desired.
    Out of curiosity, what AF Case and settings were you using for that shot.

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    This is great, I love it! Perfect body and head angles. Prey items, and glowing feet are neat. Could not have asked for better. ISO surely a typo?

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    About as good as a Puffin flight shot gets. I think the WB was off is my only critique.
    Sky was purple.
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    Thanks Dan could be maybe somewhere between the two. Its not a sky shot background is the ocean. I'm shooting down.

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    Thanks Daniel and the ISO is correct. Background is the ocean.

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    Well done Kevin, a cracking image, wouldn’t change a thing.

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    Looking good Kevin. Lovely detail you captured and I like the colours throughout. The bill and feet give a great colour boost. Like you, I was photographing them in flight whilst being above them on the Isle of Lunga. Really fast wee birds and I got some comical flight poses.

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    Beautiful image, Kevin. Well exposed, nice detail and I like the wing blur, lovely framing too. Works for me as presented

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    Seriously? Everyone here thinks the ocean is purple?
    This is/was a Critique site, you all need to check your monitors or are just
    rejecting my POV for personal reasons.
    What a joke.
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    Dan the ocean had all kinds of colors depending on the time of day, angle ,depth of water and sun refraction. Even had black water shadows from the cliffs. Not saying your background colors are that far off but the breast has a green cast.

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    Hi Kevin ... a killer Puffin flight shot

    ALL does work well here ... with head turn and the fish as the topping .

    Personally I would go with a different color balance as I think it does carry a slight magenta cast across the range , see my RP and tell me what you think . I just neutralized it by taking a reading in the underwings and used the curve to neutralize the colors .

    Cheers Andreas

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    Hi Kevin, I meant to add, looks like you had no problem 'locking on', I bet Artie gave you some golden nuggets, but don't think single point, go bigger like a square in the centre, also turn eye detection off. These birds are like bullets and ED just slows things down a fraction and if you have the right DoF, then the eye will be sharp.

    Coli, Cases are so easy with better algorithms these days, 1. General, 2 Subject passing distracting items like grass, 3 Entering the AF area, 4, Subjects that move erratically, or Auto. You then customise the Case you need, gone are the days of -2/+2.
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    DanK - I am seeing the ocean as a natural grey/blue in the original post. I do not see any purple at all.

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