say_doyster wrote:
WOW - If I had not seen this then I might have thought the only way to "create" this shot would be in photoshop combining two images (and the bird being in far better lighting conditions). Fantastic photograph, Mitesh - emotional, moving, moody and inspiring on so many levels.
I do wonder where the bird is going. :-)
Thanks for posting.
Bill
Thanks very much for those kind words, Bill! The light was running low and I had been trying for a backlit shot of oystercatchers feeding a chick, but it wasn’t happening. Not wanting to waste a great sunset, I decided to move to a tern nesting area where they were active. It took a few hundred shots, but finally this one managed to make it onto the memory card. Of course, it would have been preferable to have the bird facing me, but with wind coming from the west, I had to accept that wouldn’t happen. I suppose this is a decent example of how even a small sensor still has quite a bit of dynamic range. No combined exposures, no heavy color work or other post processing. Just a slight vignette to accentuate the setting sun and some sharpening around the bird’s silhouette.