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Very nice behavioral shots here Peter. It looks like you can get up fairly close to level with this platform, which is really nice. Exposure and detail look fine in all of them.
It is really nice to see the three shots in a series. Thanks for posting them that way. All shots look very sharp and well exposed. And nice wing positions both flying and stretched out on top of nest. Hopefully you are able to get some nice feeding shots when the young hatch. Interesting comment about the fish coming back headless.
I don’t have much experience shooting ospreys, so it’s nice to see the behavior captured here. I wonder if you zoomed in more whether you could omit most of the man-made portion of the nest? Also, there is quite a bit more noise in the two shots where the osprey is on the nest as compared to the shot of the bird flying. Were they underexposed or processed differently? I do see that you shot in aperture priority. In a situation like this, where the sky is so bright, I always find myself shooting in manual because the camera will underexpose the bird. Looking forward to more.
Hi Davie & Lyle
The nest is at a boat launch and I sat on rock off the road going down to the launch. All three photographs of the Ospreys were underexposed and processed the same way in Lightroom.
Peter
