When Cupid strikes

[Fabs Forns]

In Venice Rookery, with Artie's IPT. I can't take full credit for this, because I was using James' 2X and working on a beautiful Great Egret with lovely colors, when he came in with the branch out of nowhere. I was manually focusing, because the 2X dances back and forth, so there was no time for me to react and focus on them. Luckily, on the last 3 frames I took, he stepped into my focus plane, making the capture possible. Full frame except for an inch off the top for composition.

Date: 12/28/08
Time: 9:30:13 AM
Model: NIKON D3
Firmware: Adobe Photoshop CS4 Macintosh
Frame #: 7133
Lens (mm): 1200
ISO: 400
Aperture: 8
Shutter: 1/1250
Exp. Comp.: +1.3
Flash Comp.:
Program: Manual
Focus Mode:
White Bal.:
ICC Profile: Adobe RGB (1998)

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Very cool moment captured. I like the mood and vertical crop and might sharpen the eyes a tad more.

[Stu Bowie]

Lovely interaction captured here Fabs, and agree the comp works well. Well done.

[bill kominsky]

Love the branch being in the mouth of both birds, I'm trying to understand the crop and the female being with only the head showing and not the whole or even half the body, it still works well Fabs and please say hello to Afred.

Bill

[Sid Garige]

Like the way you framed image Fabs. Diagonal stick is working good.