Bairds Sandpiper

[Chris Elliott]

We spent a lovely evening sitting along the Cluxewe Inlet in Port McNeil BC., and there we several Least
Sandpiper feeding along the shore. We get these little gems here along the Texas Coast but not quite in these colors.

Nikon D5
500mm F4
ISO 800
F4
1/1250

All comments and critiques welcomed.

And as always, thank you for taking the time to look at my work.


Chris

[Isaac Grant]

Nice look back pose. Details look nice. I would move the bird further right in the frame. The out of focus stuff on the bottom of the image isn't helping much. Also this is a juvenile Least Sandpiper and not a Baird's. If you look down about 15 posts I posted a shot of a juvenile Baird's. You will see the difference. Baird's have diamond shaped patterns on the scapulars and are a buddy color, not reddish like Least Sandpiper.

[Chris Elliott]

Isaac,

Thanks for the ID help....certainly close in looks. I believe the image shifted toward center when I cropped to meet the sizing requirements so I agree about shifting to the right but I like the OOF section at the bottom.

Thanks for looking and the great suggestions.

Chris.

[Isaac Grant]

Chris if I read what you wrote correctly then I think you are not sizing your images correctly. You do not need to crop an image to meet the size requirements. You can crop the image however you would like. You then resize the image for web posting. I follow the following steps in PS
File
Export
Save for web (legacy)
then resize to 1200 x 800 or I think 800 x 1000 for vertical shots. Stay below 400mb. If you are close then you can resize a little smaller or you can adjust the percentage down a bit until you get below the size requirement.

Let me know if you need further help with this.

[Chris Elliott]

Isaac,

Thank you for th lesson. I doubt I will require any additional help.

Chris

[Daniel Cadieux]

I agree with Isaac's critique, and I also find the curled yellow piece of vegetation touching the sandpiper's neck is unfortunate. I like the view of the dorsal plumage and the look-back pose.

[Glenn Conlan]

Great suggestions from Daniel and Isaac, the lookback rear view is great when you have such nice feather detail,well done