Oyster catcher in flight

[arash_hazeghi]

Another image from Tampa Bay, thanks captain Shadle!



5DMKII 500 f/4, f/5.6 1/5000sec ISO 400. Hope you like it

[Harshad Barve]

You are rocking Arashbhai , terrific image , excellent wing position , BG and eye here, big congrats
TFS

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great pose, sharpness and light, BG looks good, too. I might desaturate bill and eye a bit.

[Randy Stout]

Arash:

Very nice, and the soft light really helped you here. Excellent exposure.
From a comp. standpoint, I might be tempted to move the bird a bit to the right in the frame, but very nice as is.

Cheers

Randy

[Norm Dulak]

Great feather definition, eye contact and artistic, diagonal wing sweep. My only suggestion would be to give the bird a bit more space to fly into on the left, and a little less space on the right. I also might crop a bit off the bottom, to make the image less elongate.

But TFS this excellent image!

Norm

[Robert Amoruso]

Great wing and head position. I do agree the central positioning is not ideal in the frame. Is this a vertical capture or do you have room in front? Perhaps you have something from the frame before or after that can be used for extending canvas.

[Doug Brown]

Very nice capture, with good exposure and sharpness. I'd go with a 5x7 crop and move the bird slightly more to the right in the frame.

[stuart wanuck]

lovely image keep them coming.your expertise continues to amaze me!

[Fabs Forns]

Very nice banking pose with great EXP and neat BG. Congrats!

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Arash, agree with others on crop. Beautiful pose and sharpness. Exposure perfect as usual. How big a crop? asking because entire bird sharp at f/5.6. You must have been quite far.

[Norm Dulak]

Arash, agree with others on crop. Beautiful pose and sharpness. Exposure perfect as usual. How big a crop? asking because entire bird sharp at f/5.6. You must have been quite far.

Arash:

The sharpness of the bird at f/5.6 is interesting. I thought, when I saw that and also noted the 1/5000 sec shutter speed, that it might have been better to stop the lens down to f/7.1 to increase the chances for a sharp image. And that very high shutter speed was probably not necessary.:)

Norm

[arash_hazeghi]

Arash:

The sharpness of the bird at f/5.6 is interesting. I thought, when I saw that and also noted the 1/5000 sec shutter speed, that it might have been better to stop the lens down to f/7.1 to increase the chances for a sharp image. And that very high shutter speed was probably not necessary.:)

Norm

Norm,
Stopping down to f/7.1 here does not increase your chances of getting a sharp image : first of all this photo is already tack sharp and doesn't get sharper than this :), secondly the 500 f/4 is razor sharp even at f/4 there is no need to stop down for sharpness, third these birds are small and when banking they can fit inside dof at f/4 even at a close range. high shutter speed is the key for obtaining tack sharp flight shots hand hold, the difference between f/7.1 and f/5.6 dof is so small it is not going to help you make a sharper flight image in this condition. key is to keep up the shutter speed, good hand holding and AI servo tracking technique.

Best

[arash_hazeghi]

Arash, agree with others on crop. Beautiful pose and sharpness. Exposure perfect as usual. How big a crop? asking because entire bird sharp at f/5.6. You must have been quite far.

Kaustubh the bird is small and when banking parallel you can easily fit it inside f/5.6 dof. Most of the time you see a flight shot is not tack sharp is due to soft focus or lack of SS not dof. this is a crop from horizontal

[Norm Dulak]

Kaustubh the bird is small and when banking parallel you can easily fit it inside f/5.6 dof. Most of the time you see a flight shot is not tack sharp is due to soft focus or lack of SS not dof.

Arash:

Thanks. I appreciate the explanation.:)

Norm

[arash_hazeghi]

Thanks guys for all the nice comments

Here is a repost with more space

[Ofer Levy]

Excellent techs as usual Arash!

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Repost is much more balanced. Congrats!