Another Tern

[Stu Bowie]

I revisited my tern files, and thought I would share this one with you. Taken at the coast a few months ago.

Canon 50D
100-400 @ 400mm
1/3200
F/5.6
ISO 400

Exp Comp +0.33
Hand Held from the beach.

[Dave Blinder]

Stuart, nice sharpness, comp, and exposure looks good.

[anupbunny]

What a shot!!! Mindblowing

[Nicki Gwynn Jones]

Hi Stuart,
I love the way in which the tern seemings to be surfing along on the breeze. Beautiful feather details. Does the eye look a little bright?
Best,
Nicki

[Harshad Barve]

beautiful image withnice expo and compo , eye mentioned
TFS

[denise ippolito]

Beautiful sharpness and details.The eye does look a bit bright. I love the gradient BG colors. Nicely framed.

[Julie Kenward]

Beautiful tern image, Stuart. The angles are incredible on this one. Only thought I had was maybe find a way to blend the bottom of the BG just a bit with the center so it was more gradual instead of it being a band at the bottom. Maybe a 50% clone between the two colors?

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

I really like the pose,details and the blue bg!

[Stu Bowie]

Thank you all so much for the great feedback. Here is a version removing the sea at the bottom, and darkening the eye.

[Fabs Forns]

I liked the sea at the bottom :) It seemed like a gradient, and gave depth, dang. Very sharp and great EXP.

[Michael Zajac]

Stuart, I like the bottom color also. It gave some interest. Beautiful sharpness.Can't comment on the eye-since I'm not sure. Love it!

[Bonnie Block]

Me, too--I liked the sea at the bottom. Super sharp with great detail.

[Arthur Morris]

Much prefer the sea at the bottom as in the original post. My big problem here is again one that nobody has mentioned; the bird's head is turned slightly away....

What species is this, or is it Sterna anotheri???

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

I agree about keeping the strip of ocean on bottom.
Lovely bird and wings. Agree about the head angle been a few degrees away.

[Stu Bowie]

Thank you all for the different opinions regarding the sea.

Artie, This is a swift Tern. The only tern that has a full yellow beak.

[James Salywoda]

Fantastic shot Stuart love everything about well done...

[Kiran Poonacha]

I too prefer the OP, nice details, light and pose.... congrats..

[arash_hazeghi]

Very beautiful Stuart, love the HA, wing position, BG, if you wanna be picky there is some grain on the darker feather but overall excellent. TFS

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks Stuart for the species ID.

[Stu Bowie]

James, Kiran, Arash, thanks for your great feedback.

Artie, in your own words - YAW.