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This shot of an Arctic Tern was taken right at the end of the day. I felt by then that I was getting comfortable taking portrait shots, and I was opting for an aperture of around f/5.6, a shutter speed of roughly 1/400 sec and tweaking the ISO slightly for each different location. We’d packed up our kit and were walking back to the boat when I saw this grumpy tern squawking angrily, so I got my Nikon back out for a final snap. I focused on his bright eyes and Chris suggested I crop the shot as a portrait, which really improved the final result.