Osprey in flight

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Captiva Island, Florida. Canon EOS1n w/ 600 f4 on Arca Swiss B1 and Gitzo 1548 CF Tripod

-- Nick Chronis (nchronis@psn.net), March 23, 1999

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Sorry!

-- Nick Chronis (nchronis@psn.net), March 23, 1999.

Having attempted in-flight shots with a 600/4, I admire your ability to get this one. Very nice. The detail around the eye is a bit lacking, but I have a feeling that's a scanning artifact. The exposure is dead-on with well-balanced lighting of it's underside. The edge light along the wings attests to the great timing of the exposure. While the diagonal orientation of the bird is a great compositional feature, the centering of the osprey in the frame is a little on the dull side. Positioning the osprey a little to the left and down could take it out of the center while allowing it to fly into the image.

Definately a keeper. Well done.

-- Joe Boyd (boydjw@traveller.com), March 24, 1999.


I was shooting osprey last weekend. None of the in-flight had as much shade detail as this image. How did you meter for exposure against bright sky.

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), March 24, 1999.

Nick: This is a hard image to capture. The composition is very nice. You have also managed to capture the backlighted wings as well as frontlit wings and body. Images like this are usually too dark and are silhouetted against the background sky. Well done. Bahman.

-- Bahman Farzad (bahman_farzad@spotmetering.com), March 27, 1999.

Thank you for your responses. If I recall correctly I used Evaluative Metering + 1/3. I think it helped that it was flying over the beach and probably picked up light refelected by the sand.

-- Nick Chronis (nchronis@psn.net), March 30, 1999.


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