Elegant Tern

[Dan Brown]

This capture was made last weekend from the Carmel River State Beach, Monterey county, CA. Cropped a bit and PP'ed in ACR and CS3. C&C welcome.


Camera Model: NIKON D300, handheld
Copyright: © Daniel Lee Brown
Shutter speed: 1/1500 sec
Aperture: 8
Exposure mode: Manual
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Multi-segment
ISO: 400
Lens: 80 to 400mm
Focal length: 400mm
Focal length: 600mm (in 35mm film)

[Ramon M. Casares]

Perfect light, perfect wing position, great colors, comp, detail and sharpness! Some more NR to the bird would improve this one IMO but it does looks great to me.
Congratulations!

[Harshad Barve]

Fantastic lighting , pose , colors & compo , agreed with Ramon about NR
would love to see your signature in bottom portion of image
TFS

[denise ippolito]

Dan, Nice wing position and details. I like the composition and agree a bit of NR. Very nice flight shot.

[Dan Brown]

Thanks for the comments guys! Here's a repost with less sharpening. I had tried this version originally but thought it was too soft in preview! This preview looks soft to me also, although in CS3 it looks fine? I often run into this problem, the image looks very sharp in CS3, resized for web, but then upon uploading, the preview looks softer? I also played with the signature in the lower areas of the frame and it didn't seem balanced to me, so I left it as was!

PS. this post isn't cropped quiet as tight as the original.

[Keith Bauer]

Hi Dan: Wonderful capture. Great wing position. I personally prefer the original post. I agree the second is a touch soft.

[Doug Brown]

Good to see you posting images Dan! Nice eye contact and wing position! You do great stuff with your trusty 80-400! I prefer the sharpness of the repost to the original. I might crop a bit off the bottom of the frame.

[Dan Brown]

Thanks for the input guys! Yes Doug, my little lens serves me well at times!

[Ilija Dukovski]

All said above, I'll just add that I love the colors on the bird, the whites and
especially the bill color, Very nice.