Midnight, Sheathbill in flight, Almirante Brown, Antarctica peninsula
Sheathbills are the only Antarctic land bird (no webbed feet!)
Strange, unusual natural light for me ... summer solstice, with slight overcast, but the sun was down. Plus, there was a full moon, but I couldn't see the moon either.
Lens was wide opened ... had to keep pushing up the ISO, and knocking down the speed ... probably pushed, and passed both my ability, and also my equipment here. But still trying to practice and improve from lessons learned at Jim Neiger's workshops. Fingers crossed on the processing.
EOS 40D, 70-200 f/2.8 IS @ 200 with 1.4x
1/400, f/4, ISO 1600, handheld, manual exposure
Last edited by Arthur Morris; 02-07-2008 at 08:34 AM.
The lighting is really unusual. I like the light coming through the feathers. I would like to see more details in the head and there is a halo around the feet.
A neat flight pose. I think the overall image is pretty underexposed. Maybe bump up the exposure and add some more contrast using curves or just the slider? See how that works?
Nice capture. I like the soft blue sky and the translucent tail feathers. It appears on my monitor as though there is a halo around the entire bird. Agree with the exposure suggestions.
Midnight flight of Sheathbill
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