Sanderling

[Mike Poole]

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With so many top notch portraits around these days, I find myself looking for some behaviour aspect or unusual poses within the shots I choose to process. I had the classic pose of this bird mid-step a few frames later, but the foraging pose has really caught my eye

Canon 1dx
500mm f4is + 1.4x
ISO 2000
1/2500th f5.6

Mike

[Jonathan Ashton]

Nicely detailed shot I agree good to see the foraging or similar e.g. bill just clearing water with a droplet or maybe prey.
There is a slight blue cast on the bird - you may have left it deliberately but I thought I'd mention it.

[Dorian Anderson]

Head sharpness and shooting angle are excellent. Whole image seems to have a green/blue cast. Ii'm not sure how to get the colors right since I don't usually shoot before the sun cracks the horizon as is the case here. I wish for a bit more depth of focus on the bird.

[dankearl]

Love the pose and shooting angle.. Whites look good to me, I think the color is fine.

[greg cowle]

Nice feeding pose with good detail. Color looks good to me given the illumination.

[John Mack]

Classis sanderling feeding pose. Like the tension with the water of the bill.

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

Very nice image. Like the feeding pose.

Seems like the subject is in shade.

I would add more space behind the subject.

TFS

[Mike Poole]

Thanks everyone for commenting. This was pre-dawn so there is quite a bit of blue in the BG which can fool the eye, but the values on the bird show it as being close to neutral, if anything with a slightly warm WB

Mike