Marbled Godwit

[David Pugsley]

I couldn't resist the sweet, morning light in this case. I took the position I did so that the subject would fall nicely in the mid-ground color while framed by the differentiating foreground and background colors.

1D MkIII
500 f/4 + 1.4x
1/640 @ f/13 in Av mode
+ 1/3 EV
ISO 800
Processed in LR4 with clean-up in CS6.
Ft. DeSoto, FL

Cheers!
David

[Ofer Levy]

Awesome low angle, sharp and nice pose. Would suggest using smaller wider aperture and faster shutter speed in similar situations.

[Marina Scarr]

Lovely capture, David, with terrific details, pose and great low angle. I like the fact that I can see the Godwit's feet which so often isn't the case. Agree with Ofer about the aperture. I was a bit surprised by the F13 esp when it appears you were only photographing one subject.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice feeding pose, I like that we can see a morsel in bewteen the mandibles' tips. Good exposure and colours, perfect sharpness. F/13 worked well, but yes, a larger aperture would have smoothed out the FG and FG/BG separation nicely.

[Frank Schauf]

Excellent Pose and light, good exposure control, nice comp and good ambient.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

I think I shot this same guy a couple seeks ago.Nice low angle and detail David.