Ruddy Turnstone

[John Dalton]

Ruddy Turnstone with Crab

Photo taken at Phipps Ocean Park, Palm Beach, Florida
September 26, 2017, about 4pm.
Bird was running fast from lots of other shorebirds who were trying to steal his little crab he just caught.
Canon 80D
Canon 100-400mm (old version)
320mm Focal Length
1/3200
F/8
ISO 640
Manual Mode
Photo not cropped.
Removed a couple of sponges from foreground that were distracting.

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Welcome to BPN. Excellent capture with prey, John. Nice detail and I like that you kept the strand of dried seaweed in. I know this action probably happened very quickly, and you wanted not to miss it, otherwise you might have zoomed out to 200 or even 100mm to give yourself more space around the bird. I think you could add more space at the bottom and or even the sides.

Geoffrey




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[gail bisson]

Welcome to BPN!
The crab and the little branch add a lot to the image.
I agree with Geoffrey that you need more room all around and I wish the HA was a bit better with the face turned a bit more towards the viewer.
I think you could increase the exposure slightly.
Gail

[John Dalton]

Hello Geoffrey,

Thank you! I am happy to be here. I am looking forward to learning as much as I can here.
I see absolutely excellent photographers here, so I know I can learn a lot here.
I agree there should be more room around the bird, but it all happened so fast.
That bird running with the crab was the first thing I saw as approached the shoreline that day. So, I plopped down and started shooting.

Thanks for your input.
Much appreciated.

[John Dalton]

Hi Gail,

Thank you for the Welcome!
I am very happy to be here and learn as much as I can.
I looked at your photos. Wow. Stunningly Beautiful!

Thank you for your comments on my photo of the ruddy turnstone.
I agree I could have added a little room around the bird and wished he had turned slightly towards me.
That would have been better.
Recently I have been watching many of Arthur Morris' B&H videos on youtube and through those I am just now learning about head angles and histograms and lots of other fine details.

Thanks again.