Full Frame Willet: Pushing the limits!

[arash_hazeghi]

Here is a willet bank shot from Sunday evening. The willets were having fun with tail wind bulleting around really fast. When they catch tail wind it's not really possible to swing the rig at 700mm fast enough to follow them at close range. So what I did is I watched them and tried to anticipate point of interception and raised the lens quickly to my line of sight firing off 3-4 frames at a time. I was able to catch this guy at close range for maximum detail rendition.




1D4 700mm f/7.1 1/3200sec ISO 800 you can see the HD version here

Full frame horizontal

[arash_hazeghi]

here is the full frame shot out of camera.

[dankearl]

i like the full frame shot or something between.
The technique is just over the top, I don't know how you do this stuff.
The OP is a bit too much vertical for me, I think a horizontal crop of the out of camera would look nice.

[Satish Ranadive]

Marvelous image. Love the pose ,lights and great details.

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Beautiful image, Like your work!
Sanjeev

[christopher galeski]

very nice lighting,nice pose,well done.

[Karl Egressy]

Fantastic shot, perfect in any ways. (HA, sharpness, banking pose, ye contact)
Great shot, Arash.

[Colin Driscoll]

Wow! Your HD shot is superb. Crop displays the bird best IMO.

[Sachin Saraf]

Brilliant capture Arash...I loved the composition and Rest everything is perfect as always

[Mark Itol]

Superb pose, detail, colors, and light, Arash. The HD version is just awesome. Your technique worked.

[Don Lacy]

WOnderful image love the detail and light.

[stuart wanuck]

as always very nice

[stuart wanuck]

arash do you think you could provide the photoshop steps for this image?

[jack williamson]

Great capture, great banking shot, sharp as a tack.

Jack

[Stu Bowie]

As the A Team used to say - " I love it when a plan comes together" You nailed this nicely Arash.

[Dave Leroy]

Dead centre. Not quite sure how you acquired focus that fast, even if prefocussed but will give it a try, on something much slower and on a tripod. Thanks for including your technique. Lovely photo.

[gail bisson]

I love the PP work done on this shot. It seems to have brought out a glow on the brown plumage. Tack sharp and awesome technical skill.
gail

[Marina Scarr]

Killer flight shot, Arash. You really nailed this one.

[arash_hazeghi]

thanks everyone for nice comments

[arash_hazeghi]

arash do you think you could provide the photoshop steps for this image?

not much done in PhotoShop steps are:

1) RAW conversion DPP
2) select subject, apply NR to BG
3) increase saturation +5, slight curve adjustment
4) crop, re-size and output sharpening.

[nrohrbacker]

Super shot Arash. Great detail!

[Robert Holguin]

Superb flight shot!!!! Love the pose, excellent detail, great comp, and very nice light.
Very well done.

[Richard Unsworth]

Killer shot - can you send me your bad shots lol

[Frank Schauf]

Wow, super gliding pose.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Excellent as usual. love the view of the topside with great colort and detail

[arash_hazeghi]

thanks again