Tern Against Sun

[Mital Patel]

River Tern
Camera : Nikon D300
Lens : Nikkor 80-400D ED VR f4.5/5.6
Exposure : 1/3200sec @ 370mm
Aperture : f/6.3
ISO Rating : 400
Captured On : Oct 03 2009, 6:44 am
Location : Thol Bird Sanctuary, Gujarat, INDIA

C&C Welcome..

This image was taken just after the full sunrise where few river tern was fishing and i was entering in to the sanctuary.. wish for the same thing in evening time to get reverse effect of sun..

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

WOW...nice capture Mital. Loved the cleanliness of the BG and the colors there. Do you have more frames from this series? It would be good to see one where the tern is not in front of the sun.

[Mital Patel]

thanks KD actually intention was to grab the tern exact against the sun and i removed those frames where tern missed coming between me and sun :) also i still expect the birds edges to be as much black and sharp instead glow so need to work on that.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Mital....I had seen red bleeding into the dark birds in my silhouette images. It was happening due to chroma noise reduction that I was doing durng raw conversion. Not sure if that is the case here. But if you have done chroma NR on the raw file, you can check by undoing that.

[Mital Patel]

Kd thanks for suggestion.
it was there in the raw also and i did tuned down a bit to darken it as the light of sun was way to bright and exposing the sun in morning is always a problem :)

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

Really a beautiful image...nice clean bg with a great color
Agree that It would be good to see one image where the tern is not in front of the sun...but still a beautiful image!

[arash_hazeghi]

Beautiful red tones here, you did very well with exposure. TFS

[David Thomasson]

Caught at the perfect moment! I wouldn't hesitate to take out the CA, but then I do a lot of things others wouldn't do. :eek:

[Jim Crosswell]

Really nice shot Mital! I like the repost that David altered.

[Danny J Brown]

Mital - Beautiful shot with an amazing bokeh color. Repost is a little easier on the eyes from a brightness point of view but I love them both.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Love the original post Mital bhai. Not to say Dave T's is shabby, just that I like the yellow ring as it complements the reds nicely IMHO. The only thing that I feel would be better if the sun and bird were off the centerline. Probably above it. Thanks for sharing. :)

[Kiran Poonacha]

Both posts work for me, the clean sky makes this image for me Bhai.. congrats..