Caught it just as it lifted off after bathing in a small tidal pool.
Cropped for comp.
800 ISO f5.5 at 1/2500th
Inc. metered
manual Flash at 1/4 power
Caught it just as it lifted off after bathing in a small tidal pool.
Cropped for comp.
800 ISO f5.5 at 1/2500th
Inc. metered
manual Flash at 1/4 power

cool action and sweet light looks the critical focus was on the water splash, you may also want to tone down the whites in the face.
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nice take off shot,like the wing position,and the water splash,agree about the focus,but still like it.thanks.
Hard to tell definitively on this laptop, but it does appear as though the point of focus was at the splash / feet.
The whites on the underside of the neck and face look overexposed to me....but again, it could be this laptop screen.
I think the DOF was a bit too thin here as I would have liked to have had more of the wings in focus as well.