There goes the Cormorant

Image Critiques Avian Critiques
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One of my summer projects was to photograph a Cormorant flying just of the water, in good light. This Cormorant was photographed on the Back River in Old Lyme, CT on 8-3, 8:43 AM and is my best shot so far. Most of the time I felt like I was trying to shoot the rood runner. Here come the Cormorant, find in the camera, focus, and darn he is past me.

Thank you for stopping by.

Peter

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Pertinent technical details or techniques:

Canon 7DII, sigma 150-600mm, F7.1, 313mm, 1/3200, Iso 400. I reduced the highlight by -17, increase the shadows by 24, blacks by 11 and cropped the shot into 16 by 9, using DxO Photo Lab.

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Good job catching this one flying by. They do fly fast and seem to see you waiting for them and move a little further off shore. I like the crop although there seems to be a bit of brown smudge on the very top sort of right half. Good luck!!

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This looks pretty good Peter. Detail is quite good for the size of the bird in the frame and the bright blue eye works well. I also like the slightly open beak.