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Flight of the Osprey (34)
rcrick Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 647 W: 42 N: 1198] (3854)
Today’s post is a follow on from my previous post Call of the Osprey this shows the same bird just as it took of from its favorite perch down at the Port of Brisbane.

"JPlumb" and I spent a couple of days stalking this wonderful creature, well actually their wasn’t much stalking involved, it just sat there and occasionally it would gave us a look of disgust as we continued to take pictures.

Then when it had decided we had taken enough it would fly off round the other side of the mangrove’s out of site of the cameras.

I have included a workshop image with the down beat of the wings but thought this was a better version.

Please see the previous post for the details of this Osprey,

I shot this Raw and converted to Jpeg, cropped and reduced in size for posting, I have also passed this though “Neat Image” to reduce some of the digital noise created by the 500 iso.

Camera Model Canon EOS 5D
Shooting Date/Time 12/06/2008 10:51:16 AM
Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/1600
Av( Aperture Value ) 11.0
Metering Mode Evaluative Metering
Exposure Compensation -1/3
ISO Speed 500
Lens EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
Focal Length 400.0 mm
Image Size 786x650
Image Quality Superfine
Flash Off
White Balance Mode Auto
AF Mode AI Focus AF
Picture Style Neutral
Sharpness 6
Contrast 2
Saturation 2
Color tone 1
Color Space sRGB
Noise Reduction On
File Size 97.6 KB
Drive Mode Continuous shooting
Altered Image #2

rcrick Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 647 W: 42 N: 1198] (3854)
Corel Paintshop ProX
Edited by:LCannon Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 398 W: 151 N: 790] (3056)
I just used the fill flash to brighten up the shadows. I hope you don't mind, thanks for posting this lovely bird!
Altered Image #1

rcrick Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 647 W: 42 N: 1198] (3854)
Suburban Background
Edited by:rcrick Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 647 W: 42 N: 1198] (3854)
This is the other version of the Osprey in flight with the down beat of its wings but I didn't like the suburban background, and partly because the face was slightly obscured, again as in the post this was cropped reduced in size, and passed though "Neat Image" to reduce some of the digital background noise.