Sanderling Feeding

I made this image in South Utah. Background colors are reflections of tree foliage. I was having my lens on ground pod with mongoose attached.

I waited for the bird to come in the background colors to make this image.



Camera Settings:-
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Nikon D850 600 f/4 + 1.4 x TCIII
1/4000 sec; f/8; ISO 1250
Manual; Matrix metering




Post Processing:-
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Raw Processing using C1P
Slight Crop
Nik 25-25 Filter on Bird at reduced opacity
Tonal Adjustments in Viveza
Neat Image NR
Sharpening for Presentation
Dodge selectively
Cloned few elements in the foreground




Let me know your thoughts and comments.


Thanks
Krishna

Super angle an interesting stance and the colour palette is a pleasure to view.
Nothing "wrong" with the exposure but a luminosity mask bringing down the brightest highlights only really does enhance the plumage detail significantly.

Very appealing image indeed, the face reflection in the wet surface is pretty neat. Sharp, but low angle, great colours. Yes, I also think the whites are a bit bright though.

Ditto the whites. But overall a very nice image of this shorebird.

Very interesting setting with a nice sharp subject! This is a very cool shot for the shorebird aficionados among us! Agree the whites could be turned down a tough. Love that pink though!

Thank you all for the comments. I will revisit the whites...