Western Sandpiper

I made this image in South Utah. I was crawling on sand at beach using Skimmer Ground Pod.

Camera Settings:-
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Nikon D850 600 f/4 + 1.4 x TCIII
1/5000 sec; f/5.6; ISO 1250
Manual; Matrix metering




Post Processing:-
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Raw Processing using C1P
Slight crop from top left
Nik 25-25 Filter on Bird at reduced opacity
Tonal Adjustments in Viveza
Neat Image NR
Sharpening for Presentation
Cloned few spots on the beach.




Let me know your thoughts and comments.


Thanks
Krishna

Nicely done, from colors to low angle and clean design. Crawling and SkimmerPod paid off! Will you keep the bits of grass or whatever those bits are? They are not terrible, but I feel they do distract somewhat with the rest of the image being so clean.

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Originally Posted by Matt Sutherland

Nicely done, from colors to low angle and clean design. Crawling and SkimmerPod paid off! Will you keep the bits of grass or whatever those bits are? They are not terrible, but I feel they do distract somewhat with the rest of the image being so clean.

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Thank you for the comment. My Initial thought was to remove them, but I was no successful in cloning them out. So I choose to include them in the composition.

Nice low angle. Background and light are nice as well. Like how the bird looks like it's standing in a infinity pool.