Getting away?

[Thanaboon Jearkjirm]

D700
70-200mm f2.8 VR
200mm
ISO 400
f8 at 1/2500s
Manual mode
Matrix metering
Auto white balance
handheld

Adjust curve, clone out bird in lower right corner, crop, NR and sharpen

Another weekend morning with terns. Does the bird looks to be getting away? I took the pictures with 3 continuous burst, this happened to be the last of the three, the other two has better incoming angle and bg but this one has the best wing position. The OOF bird on the wing distract, might clone it out when I have time and skill.

All comments and suggestions are welcome.

[kostas nianiopoulos]

not bad image Thanaboon , not bad at all . white looks good on my monitor . well done

[Gail Spitler]

Hi Thanaboon - to me this looks like your best one in this series so far. Well exposed, sharp, nice composition. I think the bg is a plus here; oof enough but still lets the viewer know the bird is flying over water.
The only thing I would work on are the two white oof birds near the wing.
Very, very nice image
Cheers
Gail

[Alfred Forns]

Just the oof bird merging but one nice image !!! Ideally you want him a little before but this is good !! Did great with the exposure and its very sharp !!!

[Harold Davis]

nice feather detail!! looks great. agree with al about the bird behind it. but, i'd take this!!!!

[wendell westfall]

Thanaboon, I think it would be well worth the time it might take to clone out the white splotches at the top of the wings. I love the image . . .

[Lance Peters]

Very nice - would get rid of the OOF bird - on the verge of being a little late - But Like it a lot :)

[Jeff Cashdollar]

Nice shot, agree with evicting the OOF bird and a tad late on the shutter - well done.
Exposure techs are solid and BG is complementary.

How did you determine exposure. Light meter or trial & error.