About the Image(s)

We saw about 500 of these on one day earlier this year in late march, while sailing north-east from the Columbian coast towards Antigua. They can be found in tropical waters everywhere. They are one of the most acrobatic of dolphins - they spin in the air leaping up to 3m out of the water. That does not mean they are easy to capture (in the air) as by the time you've seen an acrobatic one - it's too late!

Anyway - I chose this one from a series I took, as it sort of shows it behaving differently than most dolphins, which normally raise in an arc out of water, then down again without rotating. A 3rd image shows a group shot.

Settings - Olympus OM-1 mkii with 150-400 lens with 1.25 internal converter activated plus a 1.4 one added - at 700mm (so 1,400mm FF) at 1/2,000 f8 ISO 640 after -0.7 exp comp. Wildlife from cruise ships are often a long distance away!

PP in Lightroom - cropping a bit, then pushing it through Topaz Gigapixel to double the pixels, to allow it to be cropped more. Full frame photographers don't have to rely on software to achieve significant cropping, but at least my lenses are not heavy nor huge!