Dunlin on a cloudy morning

[allanrube]

I took this a couple of weeks ago. It was early morning with light cloud cover.
D300s 600 VR with 1.4 tc
1/500 at 6.3 +2/3 EC iso 800.

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[DanWalters]

Like the head-on look and the extra space on the right. Wish I could just a little more of the right eye.

[Stu Bowie]

I like the perspective here, together with the good DOF. Lovely soft light too.

[Andrew McLachlan]

I like this one Allan. I was first wondering how it would look in the center, but now think that the shape of the little bump in the sand justifies the composition you chose. Nice one.

[Arthur Morris]

Lovely light and pose. I like the COMP as is. I would work large and clean the tip of the bill if it were mine.

[allanrube]

I like the composition as it is. I wanted room to the right and I think the little hill it is on helps that. I agreed the ha is not perfect, but I am happy at this point to have both eyes shown. I never noticed the tip of the bill needs cleaning but will work on it.

Thanks for the comments.

[Jim Fenton]

Like the pose, like th light and I agree with Artie about the end of the bill...especially as it's OOF and will look less like a blob if it were trimmed by removing the debris.

I wish the eyes were evenly shown, but they are fairly close.

I would "level" the image by leveling the center of both eyes horizontally.