Royal Tern

Gallery: AvianPosted December 5, 201086 views5 comments

From all of our travels this last year, over 20,000 miles, I will be processing images for another year. Besides my camera is in the shop and I haven't been out to take anything new for a while. This is a Royal Tern from the beach at Sanibel Island. The image was taken at sunset. The beach was full of birds that were very cooperative.

Canon 30D
Sigma 70-300
Aperture Priority
Shutter 1/3000
Aperture f5.6
ISO 400
Cropped to about 80%
Curves

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by Mia McPherson on December 5, 2010 at 8:49 AM

Richard,

Really pretty setting and evening light, I like the pose of the tern and the head angle. There seems to be some noise in the background that I would consider using NR on, if you sharpened the background as well as the bird that may have increased the noise present.

Sanibel is lovely. Nice work on isolating just this tern, I know that can be a challenge when the beaches are full of resting birds.

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Comment posted by Monica Siri on December 5, 2010 at 12:33 PM

Richard,
I love the sidelight, the pose and the low angle. I like the pebbly beach too. Sanibel must be a beautiful place.

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Comment posted by Wayne Willison on December 5, 2010 at 4:54 PM

Good pov, Richard. The head turn is great and I like the bg. Beautiful place any old day.

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Comment posted by Angela McCain on December 6, 2010 at 1:15 AM

Like this nice low image. Great light. Some of the pebbles have the same colors as the beak. A nice compliment.

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Comment posted by Ron Dudley on December 6, 2010 at 9:24 AM

The nice light and pose make the shot for me Richard. White exposure looks good too.

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