Piping Plover

[Mike Milicia]

EOS-1D Mk III, 500mm f/4 + 2xII, 1/800, f/8, ISO 400
Fill Flash at -2
About 60% of Full Frame (cropped from top and right).

Added a sliver of canvas at left and bottom to fill in after slight rotation.

Photographed a couple of months ago on Plum Island in MA.

Looking forward to your comments and critiques! <!-- / message -->

[Aidan Briggs]

Sweet light and lovely reflection. I usually like your super low angle shorebird stuff better, but this works well here. I might lighten up the black neck ring, and dark BG a bit, if it doesn't introduce too much noise.

Well done!

[Bob Malbon]

Mike, I would crop the top and bottom a bit. When I did that on my screen the tail being so close to the edge worked for me. The clean reflection adds power to the image. Bob<input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden">

[Ray Rozema]

Amazing reflection. Nice HA Agree with above, would lighten the BG and consider little crop from the bottom. The white on the throat look a little hot but that is probably my monitor. Thanks for sharing.

[Joe Senzatimore]

Great reflection and real nice light. I would like to see this as a horizontal with more canvas on the right side and less top and bottom. The subject also seems to lack detail.

[Mital Patel]

beautiful exposure. just need little CCW rotation.

[Mark Medcalf]

Amazing reflection. Agree with the above on the crop, little off top and bottom.

[Grace Scalzo]

That's about as clean a reflection as I've ever seen, right down to the drop on the chest. Agree on the crop suggestions. The top bird's neck looks a bit bright, and the whole image looks a bit over saturated to me. Really a fun image to view!

[Harshad Barve]

amazingly beautiful reflection , lovely image , agreed with suggations
TFS

[Joerg Rockenberger]

Fantastic reflection. Whites in the head of the subject could use some toning down according to my monitor. But then, what do I know? :) JR