Snowy with fish

[Indranil Sircar]

This one was taken earlier this morning. I found a flock of snowy in a pond in Palo Alto Baylands. Fishes were in plenty and the snowy's were busy feasting on them giving me the opportunity to happily click along :) This was one of my favorite as it tossed the fish around to position it for swallowing. Here are the settings -

40D, Sigma 50-500mm @ 500mm hand held
1/3200 sec, f/7.1 Mode: Av Metering: Evaluative Exp comp: -1 ISO: 400

Applied a small s/h, saturation, selective color, noise reduction and usm. Cloned out few hot pixels on the fish. Your C&C will be appreciated.

~ Indranil

[Fabs Forns]

Perfect timing, Indranil, good EXP and BG. I may sharpen the face a bit more.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great timing, good light and BG. If it were mine I might crop it even tighter.

[Indranil Sircar]

Fabs, Axel, thanks. Here is a repost with a tighter crop and additional sharpening...

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like it, maybe a little bit more room at the top.

[Eric Virkler]

Very nice image. Nice composition and great timing. I like the original composition best, and the sharpening you did on the second image was needed. Good Shot.

Eric Virkler
Faces of Nature Photography
www.ericjvirkler.com

[Indranil Sircar]

Thanks Eric.

Axel, thanks. Here is another repost with more room on the top.

[Bryan Erb]

Great timing!! I like your last repost best.

[Grace Scalzo]

I like the final repost best as well, great action, nice colors. The negative space on the left in the original was not adding anything, to my eye.

[Ramon M. Casares]

For web use the second post is better but I did like the OP.
Great timig, perfcet fish position and lively light, I would go back to the RAW file and try to tone down a TAD the whites.
Congratulations!!! Love it.

[Stu Bowie]

Great timing to capture the fish inbetween the beak. The whites look good to me, and your last post works well.

[Juan Aragonés]

I like the original post, BG and exposure job on the whites is fantastic. The timing makes this image, excelent!

[Ryan Lambert]

Super timing here, good advise on the tighter crop..congrats

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Excellent work Indy; almost perfect HA. I was hoping to comment yesterday, but ran out of steam bud. Sorry. Like the tighter (3rd) version very much. Thanks for sharing.