Atlantics Puffins flying to the sea

[Richard Dumoulin]

Hi!

This photo was taken last week at Elliston, Newfoundland (Canada). Most of the Puffins were sitting on top of the rocks that day (the day before they were all at sea). A Great Black-backed Gull chased them off to the sea and I took the photo at that moment. :)

You comments and suggestions are welcome!

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Exifs informations:
Model: Canon EOS-1D Mark III
ExposureTime: 1/1600"
Aperture: F5.6
ExposureProgram: Aperture-priority AE
ExposureBiasValue: -2/3
ISO: 400
FocalLength: 700.0 mm
FocalLength35efl: 700.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 3405.2 mm)

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Nice capture of this moment. I like the stream of puffins, setting and BG. I might crop a bit off the top.

[Arthur Morris]

Richard, It is great to see you here. I saw that avatar and thought, "I know that guy!" Thakns for yoyur membership support. This is a way cool and unique image; never seen one anything like it. I wish that a few of the birds were more evenly spaced and I wish that the BKGR had been all cliff. IAC, I like it. You did a good job with the framing.

How is your lovely wife?

[Richard Dumoulin]

Thanks for your comments, it is really appreciated!

Artie, you have a photographic memory :) Manon is doing well and say Hello! :)

I did observe the Atlantic Puffins in Newfoundland for 30 hours on 3 days and only saw this "massive" flying to the sea 3 times. I was on AI Servo the first 2 times and missed all the action... I decided to switch to one-shot and manual focus to finally get one correctly (took me 2 times to learn my lesson :) ).

[Doug Brown]

Really cool moment captured Richard. When trying to capture action with the Mark III, I tend to push the ISO a little higher. In this case it would have allowed you to gain a bit more DOF, a slightly faster shutter speed, or both. I agree with Axel's suggestion regarding the crop. Overall an excellent photo!

[Samir Begovic]

This image is a lot of fun. Agree with the comments above and also wish all the birds were in focus.

[Arthur Morris]

ps: A good memory for nice folks! And I really like the top-crop idea.

[Richard Dumoulin]

Doug: Good point, I always try to keep the ISO down during the day but it is not a problem with the 1dmk3. I had problems with my 40D during the day but now I have no excuse.

I will try to keep that in mind for my next shots!

Thanks!

PS: I have cropped the top of the photo. The ratio is no longer 5x7 but I don't think it is a problem...

Thanks to all for your suggestions, they are appreciated! :)

[Harshad Barve]

very well done here, hope to photograph them some time
Harshad

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

The repost is great and love the action in this one. I also see this for the first time and I didn't know they could fly! Congrats on a great image.

[Gyorgy Szimuly]

Very nice image. I like it. There is a dust spot above the leftmost birds flapping wings.

Szimi

[christopher galeski]

like this shot,nice BG,cliffs,comp.thanks.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Beautiful image this.. loved the flow, the repost work well..

[Stu Bowie]

Great repost, and something I would really like to witness and capture. These guys have such fantastic detail and colours on their heads.

[Thanaboon Jearkjirm]

I really like the repost, might try to run a noise reduction on the background and see what happen.
I wish to photograph these birds one day too.

[David Fletcher]

Great shot Richard! Repost is superb!

[Chris Kotze]

Greta capture and Yep repost comp looks great. Congrats

[Chris van Rooyen]

Very different and striking!! I agree with the tighter crop and a higher ISo that would have given you more depth of field and frozen the action more with a higher SS. Still a lovely image!