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Fish with a Grebe
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Fish with a Grebe

by Scott Frye

Gallery: AvianPosted January 18, 2012221 views10 comments
Pied-billed Grebe at Bayport Pier, Florida

1/800 at f5.6 and ISO400
Canon 500mm with 1.4 TC
Canon 7D

Shot 20 minutes after sunrise with the sun stil trying to break through some low Florida morning clouds

Comments

10 comments
Comment posted by John Robinson on January 18, 2012 at 6:54 PM
Superb stuff indeed ! - and a great title !
JR
Registered on March 2, 2008, 535 Posts, 2453 Comments
Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on January 18, 2012 at 8:06 PM
Love the title - the fish is almost the size of the little grebe!
Nice pose, great prey, and I really like the water ripples, colour, and fading to the horizon.
Sandy
Registered on November 24, 2003, 3937 Posts, 12909 Comments
Comment posted by Luke Ormand on January 18, 2012 at 8:10 PM
A little noisy but otherwise a pleasing image of this cute bird with such a big catch.
Registered on February 4, 2009, 1093 Posts, 7035 Comments
Comment posted by Charlie VanTassel on January 18, 2012 at 10:51 PM
I like the lighting, and of course, the subject. Nice pose. I too wish the noise was a little less. This photo seems like it could be improved with a little N/R. :toast:
Registered on October 18, 2006, 644 Posts, 4801 Comments
Comment posted by Richard Ditch on January 19, 2012 at 12:01 AM
Great subject; nice light and colors. I like the intimate feel of this.

There's definitely more noise here than there should be at ISO 400. Possible reasons include: excessive cropping; excessive exposure increase in raw conversion; applying sharpening to entire image including water in background.
Registered on November 1, 2003, 1031 Posts, 12705 Comments
Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on January 19, 2012 at 12:16 AM
Very good capture. Makes my throat hurt just thinking about swallowing that stickleback. Nice light and head turn; nicely sharp. I agree with the others about the noise.
Registered on August 28, 2006, 1240 Posts, 8506 Comments
Comment posted by Ron Bielefeld on January 19, 2012 at 5:00 PM
Nice pinfish breakfast for this grebe Scott. The noise in the BG and FG water is noticable. Might run some NR on those areas.
Registered on December 6, 2008, 360 Posts, 7132 Comments
Comment posted by Ron Dudley on January 19, 2012 at 6:33 PM
I like the fish and the light on the grebes face. Agree that the noise is an issue.
Registered on March 30, 2007, 437 Posts, 10915 Comments
Comment posted by May Haga on January 20, 2012 at 6:07 PM
Now that's a big fish for a little bird. Nice catch.
May
Registered on February 22, 2007, 714 Posts, 8470 Comments
Comment posted by Simon Bennett on January 21, 2012 at 1:22 AM
Great catch for bird and photographer, lovely head turn too. I'd be tempted to apply selective noise reduction to background.
Registered on February 4, 2007, 350 Posts, 4614 Comments