Horned Puffin in flight, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.
We are a bit behind and are just now editing and adjusting last Summer’s photos. So I thought I would share some since they are still “new” to me.
Horned puffin are really tough to photograph in flight. Not only are they fast, but they are about the size of a football and don’t always fly a nice even path. Over the years, some of my guests have captured killer flight images of puffin, but I have been a bit skunked. Now that I have a much better flight lenses, the Canon 70-200 f/2.8, I decided to give more of an emphasis to flight photography. This past Summer, between two trips in Prince William Sound, and my two Bear and Puffin Photo Tours, I had lots of opportunity, and was able to finally captured some decent puffin flight images! This was from my June bear trip.
Canon 5D III, 70-200 with 1.4 converter @ 280, ISO 200, f/5 and 1/3200 of a second. Original is a horizontal cropped to vertical. I rarely crop, but this image worked much better cropped.
