Arctic tern w/ flash

[Charles Glatzer]

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Iceland '08

We had a blast with the arctic terns. Manual exposure and flash once again provided the necessary consistency in overall exposure.

IDS Mark III, 24-70 @ 24mm, manual flash balanced at 4 ft.
Manual, NO METER sunny f/16 equivalent - .3 EV, 1/1000 @ f/11, ISO 400
Post-production-ARC 5.0, CS4

See you where there is light, or at the computer

Best,

Chas

[Juan Aragonés]

Terrific result Chas it looks almost unreal. Excelent exposure control and use of fill flash.

[Desmond Chan]

Wow, the bird looks like it's glowing ! It might look a bit sharper than what our naked eyes can see in the real world, but it's a good looking image IMO. If I could nit-pick, then perhaps the head could be a bit lower like the bird is looking down at your and so we can see the eyes better, or with the bird looking up a bit so that the pic could show the beak against the sky clearly.

[Tony Whitehead]

Great feather detail. Really stands out against the under exposed blue sky. At this resolution the head area looks a little oversharpened with light and dark halos visible. At higher res the detail of the open beak would be clearer and add to the image.

[Charles Glatzer]

Great feather detail. Really stands out against the under exposed blue sky. At this resolution the head area looks a little oversharpened with light and dark halos visible. At higher res the detail of the open beak would be clearer and add to the image.

Tony,

Curious???

What is your monitor res and are you looking at the image w/o scaling? I am at 1920 x 1200

Thanks for the feedback. Does repost look better?

Chas

[Ramon M. Casares]

Great use of flash as the primary light source! Very good Exposure and pose! A bit more room all arround and to the right would help IMO. Congratulations!

[Nagesh Mula]

This is an Amazing Shot with perfect flash.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great wing position and the open bill adds to it. Sharpness looks good, is this a repost?

[Mark Schmitt]

Most effective use of flash. Without it, the eyes would have been lost in the black feathers of the head. Flash also alowed for under exposure of BG; resulting in great contrast between bird and sky. Great shot.

[Don Lacy]

Beautiful image, I love the sweep of the lines in the wings and tail not to mention how the Tern seems to glow against the sky.

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Chas this is stunning with a wonderful flight pose, excellent exposure and excellent detail. Love it !!!

[Aidan Briggs]

Nice pose, and a good use of flash. Where was this taken?

[Tony Whitehead]

Tony,

Curious???

What is your monitor res and are you looking at the image w/o scaling? I am at 1920 x 1200

Thanks for the feedback. Does repost look better?

Chas

Hi Chas my laptop monitor is 1440x900 and am looking at the image without scaling. Repost resolves the halo I was seeing (had put my laptop to sleep with your image window open so was able to reload your page into a new window and compare both) Looks fine on my desktop at 1920x1200.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Chas,
We recommend that people leave up the original post........so that we can compare the difference ourselves and respond to the changes...........just an FYI.

[Charles Glatzer]

Hey Chas,
We recommend that people leave up the original post........so that we can compare the difference ourselves and respond to the changes...........just an FYI.

Gottcha...some sites do not want to suck up bandwidth.

Tony appreciate the feedback.

UNTIL WE ARE ALL VIEWING AT THE SAME RES JUDGING CRITICAL SHARPNESS, ESPECIALLY, ON THE WEB IS DIFFICULT AT BEST. AN IMAGE THAT APPEARS GOOD TO ONE VIEWER MAY LOOK OVER OR UNDER SHARPENED TO ANOTHER.

Hence my query ;)

Best,

Chas

[Linda Robbins]

The flight pose with fully spread wings and tail is lovely and the open beak certainly is nice. Excellent use of flash. Beautiful capture.

[Vincent Grafhorst]

Excellent image Chas. I have a question to you about your exposure here. Maybe a stupid one, but right now I don't understand something. At iso 400 and f/11 the sunny f/16 rule's SS is 1/800 sec, right? Now you say you dialled in -3EV from the sunny f/16 rule, which would be a SS of 1/3200? But your SS was 1/1000 sec.? Now where does the flash come into this?

[Charles Glatzer]

Excellent image Chas. I have a question to you about your exposure here. Maybe a stupid one, but right now I don't understand something. At iso 400 and f/11 the sunny f/16 rule's SS is 1/800 sec, right? Now you say you dialled in -3EV from the sunny f/16 rule, which would be a SS of 1/3200? But your SS was 1/1000 sec.? Now where does the flash come into this?

Vincent,

It should HAVE read -.3 or 1/3 EV.This ensured the white wing tips lit by direct ambient sunlight would not be overexposd. The flash pwr output was selected to provide the same f/stop at a fixed subject distance of 4 ft.

I added the . good catch ;) Others should have noticed as well.

Best,

Chas

[Stu Bowie]

Excellent use of flash, and very well exposed. Well done on a superb image.

[Vincent Grafhorst]

Thanks Chas!

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Good use of flash. It brings out terrific details and the eye becomes visible despite the black head. Lovely image.