NMBEP Ian Hay thread

Well Ian,
here's one that could very nearly have been a great shot. I'd watched this Heron stalking for ages early one morning. It was misty, cold and the bird was in the shade when it struck and caught this fish.
I managed to clip the birds wing and due to the relatively slow shutter speed there is some movement.
So near, yet not near enough!
EOS 20D
Sigma 500mm
exp 1/350 @ f5.6 iso 400
Full frame. no cropping at all on this

nice blood coming out the fish!!

Hi Robert,

This is a very nice shot! Maybe you can salvage it with various crops!


Ian - Awesome idea!

Thanks for the post

Very good, I agree about the blood, very striking if you pardon the pun.

Re the wing not much you could of done I do not think anyone would have been ready for that, it must have lost balance.

All the best

Ian Hay

Hi Ian,
you are right, it did lose balance as the fish is quite a heavy one. I have an old habit of filling the frame in camera (the bird with its wings closed was well framed initially) and quite often when something like this happens there isn't any room left for the action to 'spread out' as it were. Thanks for the comments all.

Wow like you say nearly.
John

Its not always necessary to have the wings in the image, lovely action shot anyway!
Rene de Heer

The close-up with cut wings actually gives more impact I think, quite nice

Have you tried a creative crop and a bit of sharpening, because I think that Rene and Helge are right. There may still be a better shot in there than you think.
Eric