Magnificent Frigatebird in Flight

[Harold Davis]

one from my hooptie trip last week with james.

D300, 300 f/4 at f/7.1, 1/1000s, ISO 400, manual exposure. only a slight crop off the top for composition.

thanks for looking. comments and critiques greatly appreciated.

[arash_hazeghi]

looks very nice, like the full wing span. good exposure too, think you can bring out a bit more detail from the blacks. TFS.

[Harold Davis]

think you can bring out more detail from the blacks.

thanks arash. i have reached my threshold in bringing up the shadows. dont know what else to do without introducing uncontollable amounts of noise.

[Dave Leroy]

I like the composition and nice wing span.

Just needed that bit of light under the bird, hard to get though.

Nicely focused with bird flying directly at you.

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Harold As good as you can do for that pose, like to see fuller wings !! When they flare to land or directly overhead Tough birds to shoot !! Looking forward to checking them out soon !!!

[Lance Peters]

Hi Harold - one tough bird that one!!
Think you did the best you could here!!
Like the bird flying towards you. :)

[Dave Mills]

Hi Harold, agree with above comments. Another positive is the diagonal position in the frame...

[arash_hazeghi]

slight selective HLS and smart sharpen :

Hope it is an improvement :)

[Oscar Zangroniz]

Great capture H and the re post by Arash shows that the blacks can indeed be improved.
congrats

[Harold Davis]

does look better, arash! thanks! i'll have another go at it and see what i can come up with.

thanks everyone for your comments.