Just a coot

[arash_hazeghi]

Happy looking coot is ready for the weekend

http://www.stanford.edu/%7Eahazeghi/Photos/birds/coot.jpg

5D MKII + 500 f/4 + 1.4X TC ISO 800 1/1600sec aw: DPP

Happy Friday

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Arash, "just a coot" thats pretty well exposed. I like the detail, and good job on that very difficult beak too.

[Scott Frye]

Details in the blacks (check) --beak not blown out (check) -- red eye (check) -- good job on this common but hard to photograph coot.

[Manjesh Lingamurthy]

Coot is a very hard bird to expose and get all the details. You have nailed it perfectly.

[Dave Leroy]

Nice photo Arash. It looks like you have gotten the Coot sitting nice and still. Calm.
Very well done on the exposure.
On these subtle ha's, I can't quite tell whether this one is toward us, square to sensor, or slightly away. All I know is I want to turn the bird slightly toward me.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Arash, very nice dynamic range here. Only suggestions are lower angle if possible and a pnao crop with a little more room in front. Coots, when in water, are quite "short". I find that the best possible shots come by putting the camera and lens on the ground....or slightly raised. Its an excellet shooting subject.

[Doug Brown]

Exposure and details look good. I would like a slight head turn towards you though. Perhaps a bit more room in front of the bird.

[Markus Jais]

Beautiful shot of this fellow. Perfect exposure with details in both the black feathers and the white bill (this is not always easy with Coots).
Like Doug, I would like to see a slightly better head angle towards the camera.

Markus

[Luis Villablanca]

Great job on the exposure, Arash. I love the feather detail you were able to get even though the lens was wide open. I also would have liked a lower shooting angle and better head angle, but the feather detail.

[Steve Canuel]

A very nicely detailed and exposed image. Well done.