Back Winged Stilt

[Lance Peters]

Black Winged Stilt - shot in the early morning golden light.

Purposely cut the reflection as it just wasn't very strong (Ok at the start but faded away to nothing)
I hadn't been able to capture the fantastic eyes on these little guys in the past, nothing done to the eye other than sharpened a tad.

D3
Sigmonster @800mm
F9
1/640th
200 ISO
AS Metered
Handheld - yep its real heavy.

Hope the whites are not to hot - I like to push then to the edge :)

All commenst appreciated.

[Doug Brown]

Nicely done Lance! Don't see you on Wild and Free all that often; you should spend more time here! Like the pose, the light, and the water. In particular, I like how you can see the entire ring of ripples. BG is like a painting. Well done! Did you hand hold this one too? :D

[Kaushik Balakumar]

Very beautiful image, tack sharp. Liked that lovely warm glow on the bird.

[Nicki Gwynn Jones]

Hi Lance,
Just gorgeous - what a cracker - well done!
Regards,
Nicki

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Wonderful exposure and beautiful eye contact and pose. Love the lighting too and the stunning BG. Fine image and thanks for sharing.

[Harold Davis]

super awesome, mate!!!! the bg is fantastic and the whites look fine to me. feels good to venture into the deep end of the pool doesnt it?!!!

[Julie Kenward]

This is really lovely, Lance. Gosh, the details in the eyes and the water are stunning.

[Lance Peters]

Hi Guys - thanks everyone.

Doug - its not ofetn I get one that I am happy enough with to post here. Yep handheld again.

:)

[Ramon M. Casares]

VERY nice, no nits here, I just like it a lot, light, pose, colours, all looks very good! Congratulations!

[Juan Aragonés]

The whites looks fine to me but I think some dark areas lack details. I am sure that if you go to the RAW file and process this dark areas selectively you would add a lot of more details to this fantastic image.

[Desmond Chan]

Hi Guys - thanks everyone.

Doug - its not ofetn I get one that I am happy enough with to post here. Yep handheld again.

:)

Good job again, Lance !

IMO, not every pic posted here is better than those on the ETL forum.

[Lance Peters]

Thanks Juan - I will go back to the raw and seewhat I can pull out of the blacks :)

Desmond - :)