Mid Air toenail clipping

[Rene A]

He is having lunch in mid air ..either toenails or fish guts. He did not have have time to look at me.. SO no eye contact SORRY!

Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
100-400
f5.6
1/3200
iso 640

sorry please move

[arash_hazeghi]

where was the focus point in this image?

[Alfred Forns]

Hi JB I'm fine with the eye contact, the bird is paying attention to the task at hand .. and might even be the toenails :)

Arash has a point on the focus, I think it grabbed the wings and the head is not really sharp !! For flight I usually use the center point only and actually try aiming for the head/neck area !! I like how you got the shutter speed up ! I like at least 1/2500 if possible, at least this year have been making an effort to have that much ... not always possible !!

[Keith McHugh]

Love the action in the shot. For me it looks like the head is blown out a bit. This may be an artifact of the focusing perhaps. Nice work though.

[Lance Peters]

Hi - ha does not bother me at all - bird is eating his catch. Like the pose but do agree on the focus point - does seem to be on the wing.
Hot pixels on the head?
Techs look good!!

Keep em coming ;)

[Dave Mills]

Hi Rene, Agree with the focus point and in this case not bothered by the HA since it's a form of behavior. The wings appear sharp and nicely lit...

[Harshad Barve]

One awesome image and agreed with comments above
TFS

[sandy richards]

Rene, a really nice catch here!
Excellent shutter speed to catch the action, and fine detail.
Agree about missing the head as a focal point, but still a nice image.

Cheers -
Sandy

[Rene A]

Thanks for all the comments appreciate it.

This image was from a series of 12. This image was number 9. The shots before & after where "pretty" shots, but I chose this one because of the action. I checked the focus point (it was not on the head) .

I shot center with 9 surrounding AIS.