Killdeer

[John Mack]

This image was created in Ithaca, New York on 4/9/19 at 5:46PM. Image processed in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Hand held, Small crop.

Canon 5D MarkIV
Sigma 150-600 Contemporary
600mm
ISO 800
f8.0
1/2000sec

[David Roach]

Pretty much perfect... Great job getting the entire body in the smooth BG. TFS

[Alex Becker]

Sweet one John. Awesome setting, low POV, detail, and light angle. Very clean setting for where you see this species. Possibly a touch more DOF for the legs, but you were close and at f/8 already. Really like this one, TFS

[Dorian Anderson]

My kinda low angle shorebird frame! Beautiful light, and the earthen color pattern through the frame is great. Yeah, it would be nice to see more scales on the legs, but you've really got our attention focused on his face as is. It works well!

[arash_hazeghi]

nice light and details, I would have chosen a slightly higher vantage point so we could see the feet more

TFS

[Aditya Sridhar]

Very nice shot John! Sweet light and the perspective is perfect. I don't mind the lack of feet on this image - I think the grass would've started to compete with the bird had you gotten higher so I like this one as presented. Great work!

[Ivan Sjogren]

Nice one John!
I like the color palette through out the image. Great background, details and pose. I too would have liked to see the feet but it is not crucial that you can't in this version.

[Bill Dix]

Terrific low POV shot. I like the muted color palette that makes the red eye ring pop. Well done.

[dankearl]

A tad more DOF would have been great and I would add some blacks to the bird..
Excellent angle.