... I'm toast !!!!

[Alfred Forns]

From the recent IPT with Artie this past week, an Osprey with its sheepshead dinner, wander what that fish is thinking right now .... probably I'm toast !!!

Canon 1DMk4
100-400 IS
f 7.1 1/1600sec
ISO 800
Av 0

Comments welcome and much appreciated

[Markus Jais]

Awesome capture. I like the panorama format. The fish is great and quite big! Great light and sharpness.
I like the spread wings.

Markus

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Makes you wonder how the osprey carries the load. I like the sharpness and that we can see both eyes. It looks as if there is a slight S/H halo above the bird's left wing and I see a lighter horizontal line in the upper right.

[Tony Whitehead]

Good catch, Al. I like how the barring on the fish is echoed in the barring in the plumage.

[Grace Scalzo]

Exciting image, Al. I really like the position of the fish.

[Morkel Erasmus]

super capture Al. obviously a head-on flight angle would have taken this to another level ;)

[arash_hazeghi]

Love the fish as much as the bird, looks great and sharp.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Yes, the future doesn't look too bright for the fish :-) Liked the diagonal comp. a lot. very strong. As Axel noted, there is halo. I saw that in a lot of my gull-against-sky images. It was my sharpness setting of 4 in DPP that was causing it. I have realised that thats a little high for such images...although it works fine in most other cases.

[Ilija Dukovski]

Wow, that is a monster fish, great image,
I like it very much.

[Steve Maxson]

Love the expression on that fish, Alfred, and you've done an excellent job of capturing the bird as well. I wonder if a little CW rotation is in order - I say that looking at the head. Birds typically fly with their head level and this one is tilted slightly to our left. Of course, a CW rotation would lose some of your nice diagonal comp. Tough to give up that diagonal. :) :)

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Steve the bird was banking into his perch so that was the actual flight inclination.

[Harshad Barve]

excellent image on all counts Alfred , Big congrats for this
TFS