Purple Sandpiper

[Jim Fenton]

Image created in Maine this past weekend as one of the group stepped out of the heavy seaweed where they had been feeding and headed over to where I was positioned for a look see.

Nikon D300, 500VR, TC14EII, UniWB, Flat tone curve, ISO 640, F6.3, 1/640, +.7 EV compensation applied.

[Randy Stout]

Jim:

Your bird is sharp, well exposed, nice angle.

I find the OOF foreground mildly distracting, and think toning down the brightness a little would help.
I would also remove the extra tiny catchlight.

Thanks for sharing.

Randy

[Ed Cordes]

The thumb does not do this image justice. The bird is tack sharp and the colors are super. I might consider cropping the bottom off to the top of the OOF rock on the left; then, as Randy suggested, toning down the remaining OOF rock that is left.

[Stu Bowie]

Lovely low angle, and I like how you have included him in his enviroment. Well exposed with good detail, but I feel this is actually oversharpened a tad.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the setting and the OOF rocks in the foreground are not distracting in my opinion. If at all, I would crop a tiny bit off the bottom. I agree regarding less sharpening and would remove the lower catchlight.

[Jim Fenton]

-Cut back on the sharpening a hair (must be my eyes as the original looked OK on my screen?)

-Removed the 2nd naturally occuring catch light (no flash was used)

-Cropped the bottom a hair

-Dropped the luminousity on the OOF forground rocks a bit as well.

How does the rework look?

[Axel Hildebrandt]

The repost looks great!

[Jim Fenton]

Great....I done something right today :)

[Randy Stout]

Jim:

I like it. I suspect the extra catchlight was a reflection off the water.

Randy

[Chris Kotze]

Super pose and angle the repost looks great

[Dick Glover]

Repost looks great and the sharpness just right.