Full Frame Semipalmated Plover Portrait.

[Daniel Cadieux]

This individual let me belly crawl up to minimum focussing distance (about 12 feet with the 500mm f/4 II) for some full-frame head-and-shoulder shots. It stayed there for a whopping 5 minutes while I tried a variety of angles and camera settings. Here I stopped down to ensure enough depth of field on the whole subject.

Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/400s., f/10, ISO 400, natural light, handheld (elbows on ground), minor bill clean-up via patch tool, tamed a white hot spot via burn tool, darkened pupil.

[Frank Schauf]

Beautiful portrait, great pose and colors.

[MohsenVahedipour]

Nice portrait. Tack sharp with excellent details & lovely light. TFS

[Iain Barker]

Can't believe you got so close Daniel. This image is awesome.

[shane shacaluga]

Sharp as it gets ;)

What amazing feather details!!!

White looks very good and BG is superb. On my monitor the eye looks like it could be lightened very slightly to make the pupil/iris difference more noticeable.

TFS

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Excellent IQ, perfect comp and a beautiful bg. Love it!
(Also tells me I identified my last post incorrectly. Thanks)

[Jonathan Ashton]

Top class image Dan, the detail and colours are really first class.

[Richard Flack]

Cracker image Dan. Love the detail and BG. Not often you get a chance to get this close. Well done!

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Dan, great close up showing oodles of detail, and good choice at F/10 to make it work. Nice and sharp, and I like the hint of sand on the beak. Nicely posed against a killer BG too.

[Danny Laredo]

Sweet image well worth the effort.

[vishaljadhav]

lovely one, nothing to nit pick at all
fantastic image

This year i am gonna look at the beach to get some good waders in the migration season

[hennieloots]

Hi Daniel - Another killer image! The layered Bg colors look awesome. The detail showing the fine patterns in the feathers are very well done. IQ top-notch.
TFS
Hennie

[Karl Egressy]

It is amazing to see all this details. It has the right amount of sharpness, nice HA and nice two tone background, Daniel.

[Greg Oakley]

Wow! Unbelievable Dan - the detail and IQ are over the top. I'm jealous - I have never got this close to a wader despite much trying!

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Stunning Dan, love close-ups with lot's of detail. I should be try to add some in my gallery. The huge sharp eye make it for me, excellent two tone colours in the BG, lovely work.

[Jim Crosswell]

Great image Daniel! I like the IQ, details, HA, BG and composition.

[Richard Unsworth]

Detail is OTS, very exciting to get so close.
beautiful, images like this can only add to the current knowledge of the colors and intricate details of birds.

[Simon Wantling]

Absolutely stunning Daniel.