Osprey Fishing

Hi all.

Just back from a trip with my fiance upto the Cairngorms. 2 weeks of absolute bliss camping on the Rothiemurchus estate. Took several cards worth of photos so thought I would post a few.

First is a shot taken during a morning session at the Rothiemruchus fishery with Keith Collins. Low light meant working at high iso's but some images turned out pretty good especially for a first try at birds in flight photography and in particular of Osprey's.

A slight amount of noise reduction, some sharpening and a crop of approx 1/3 other than that image as taken. Oh and leg tag cloned out.

C&C most welcome.


Nikon D300
Nikon 400mm
ISO 1600
F4.0
1/500

Superb timing. Excellent effort. Well done indeed.

Good one Ben.
I reckon you could do a bit more on the noise reduction. ( I appreciate its 1600 !! )It does show a bit.
It would be difficult selecting around the bird though.
Cheers
johnR

not really used noise reduction part of CS3 before so will give it another go.

Hopefully this is a bit better. New to noise reduction but this seems to be a bit better. Basically cut out bird and reduced noise on background.

The repost is miles better, a brilliant shot and I love the blur in the wings and fish.

Repost is stunning,love the action you have captured with this shot well done

Superb action shot and second post works much better, a little bit of selective sharpening on the bird will make it pop and maybe a little CCW rotation so the bird/water isn't going up hill..

Quite envious as it's one of my favourite birds so I think I have some holiday plans for next year..

Brett

Cheers guys.

Definately worth a visit Brett. Was considering phoning work and handing in my resignation to stay up there.

Ben it has been said but the repost is much better, well done on an excellent action shot...

Yes, all been said. Super shot! I think I will be visiting there sometime too!

Great stuff, well done !

Drew

Great bit of action with the repost being much better!

Superb flight shot!