Pyrroholoxia in flight

[Myer Bornstein]

This picture was taken at an Alan Murphy Workshop on Roma Texas. Nikon D3s Nikon 70-200 f 2.8 with 1.4x TC, 1/5000 sec f 5 ISO 800 some adjustment in LR and Cropped

sent from Midway Airport Chicago while waiting for my 2.5 hour delayed flight

[arash_hazeghi]

pose, wing position and eye contact are excellent, but the bird is pretty soft and the BG looks grainy.

[Arsdel Fluesmeier]

Bird a bit soft. Wing and pose very good.

[Doug Brown]

Just a super pose Myer! Laptop processing can lead to soft images. I'd like to see a repost after processing on your desktop.

[Gary Esman]

Hi Myer, agree with the above comments, played around with it a little in PS. This shot has HUGE potential.

Gary.

[Jeff Parker]

Others have pointed out the bird is a bit soft.

Congrats on the capture. I have a devil of a time with moving songbirds. Were you manually focused at a set distance or did you try to get an autofocus point on him?

[Myer Bornstein]

Thanks everyone for their suggestions I am going to work on the image now that I am back home and have the full potential of LR and PS I only use my laptop on trips to download images and preview them

Jeff
I was manually focused on a set point between perches that Alan Murphy set up and fired with a hand held trigger as soon as the bird leaped. I got a lot of half birds, but it was an interesting experience. You need a fast camera. My D3s fires at 9 fps but I missed a lot of shots

[Manjeet & Yograj Jadeja]

nice pose. these type of shots are always a hit and miss affair,
agree with Doug.