Common Tern Stretching (with repost)

Apologies for not posting or commenting in a while - after a very uneventful March I've been trying to make the most of the recent influx of spring visitors. Anyway here's one from a couple of days a go. I've had to replace the wing tips as in this frame I'd slightly cropped them off, the next frame had everything in but I preferred the position of the bird in this shot so using the PS quick mask method described in Art Morris' manual I pasted them across. I wish I'd used a bit of fill flash on this but like always my flash lay forgotten in the car

Thanks for looking

Paul
Guernsey

Canon 500mm f/4L IS & 2x with 1D Mark III, ISO 400, 1/800 sec. at f/8, beanbag.

Some amazingly graphic lines happening here Paul - very nice

I think you could afford to go with a central comp on this just to give some room for the tail

Top shot fella

Very fine behaviorshot Paul,
Great Post.
Greetings,
Bertl Menegoni
Innsbruck
Austria

Good PS skills-great pose,the wings are amazing

Dave

Thanks all and thanks Andy for the central suggestion. I think it looks better?

Nicely captured!

David

Hi Paul,

Cracking capture! I prefer the crop of the repost!

Like the cropped repost, the pose makes a great vertical panorama - erally shows the size of the wings

What a superb shot. Some skilful processing as well.
Eric