Snail Kite ENP

[Alfred Forns]

From this afternoon at ENP This kite has been returning to roost every afternoon and with some patience a good target. Bird returns twenty minutes before sundown and all you need is a decent wind direction for a good pass.

Comments welcome and much appreciated

Canon 1DMk3
500 f 4.0 IS
f5.0 1/500 sec
Manual exp + 1 over sky
Flash on manual at full

[Kerry Perkins]

It's a beauty Al! Love the wing position, details, and amount of light you got on the underside. My turn to say "you could lighten and sharpen the eye a bit". :D

[denise ippolito]

Alfred, Nice! I missed these guys when I was in Florida-didn't see one. One of my favorite birds-well done!

[Lance Peters]

Love the baby blue sky and the pose and teh placment in the frame with plenty of space for him to fly into
Big Congrats :)

[Gus Cobos]

Congratulations Mr. Forns,
You were faster on the trigger than me...I totally missed him...:eek::(...but you nailed him...I like the details, flight angle and the wing position with the fine details...good show...:cool:

[Ilija Dukovski]

I like it a lot! It is interesting to note, at least for myself, that
you used flash on this one. I would never have thought that you can use
flash on flying birds. Flash is completely unexplored teritory for me, yet.

Cheers, Ilija

[Katie Rupp]

Very nice, Mr. Al!

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Ilija Besides lighting up the bird, flash will help you make a sharper images. The one thing to keep in mind is shutter speed ... once you go into high speed sync light output drops dramatically. One of the reason I don't go much past 500 !!

[Ilija Dukovski]

Thanks Al,
I need to read a bit on this one and get back here :D


Cheers, Ilija

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

HI AL

Fabulous image. Almost perfect head angle mate. :) Thanks for the flash info Sir, I will try keeping to that and see how it makes a difference.