Snow Bunting in flight

[Pierre Giard]

I have recently been working on getting sharp photos of these birds in flight. Lots of trials and errors.

Comments and critiques welcome.

Pierre

Canon 1D mark III
500mm F4
f/8.0
1/3200s
iso500
w/flash and BB

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Cool capture, details and eye contact. It was probably a good idea not to use a TC for faster focus. I might lighten the shadow on the ground and if you have maybe it would also work as pano crop with the entire shadow included.

[Ramon M. Casares]

Love it! Great pose, light and detail, I think that removing the shadow might help. Congratulaitons!

[Bob Malbon]

Super capture of a bird that is hard to photograph still no less flying! Thanks for the exif - 1/3200 WOW! If you have more shadow I would use it or if not clone it out. Bob

[Doug Brown]

Nicely done! I would go with a pano crop that includes the shadow. Love the fanned tail feathers and great eye contact.

[christopher galeski]

great shot,to get one so sharp in flight magic,I agree with the others about the pano crop and shadow.thanks.

[Pierre Giard]

Thanks for your comments. Unfortunately, I don't have more shadow to work with. I can clone what is there to see how it looks like.

Pierre

[Marina Scarr]

Salut Pierre:

Tremendous capture of this very difficult bird to photograph in flight. My first thought after admiring this capture was that the shadow detracts from the main subject. I would do a quick mask to remove the shadow since you have no more shadow to try the pano.

Felicitations!

[Tony House]

Great capture, like the comp, agree about the shadow being removed..

Nice work.
Tony

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Holy cow! That is super! I am sure it is not a big bird, which makes it so much more special a capture. Very, very well done! :) Removing the shadow is a good idea IMHO. :)

[Pierre Giard]

As suggested here is a repost without the shadow.

Thanks

Pierre

[John Ippolito]

Love the repost. Pose, wing position and tail fan superb. Simply marvelous image of this species!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

The repost looks much better, I might crop a bit off the left.