Another from JBWR last week. I guess I'd call this a fresh juvenile? Comments?
D7000, 500f4 + 1.4, ISO 500, 1/2000s @ f/7.1 manual, lowered gitzo and mongoose
Another from JBWR last week. I guess I'd call this a fresh juvenile? Comments?
D7000, 500f4 + 1.4, ISO 500, 1/2000s @ f/7.1 manual, lowered gitzo and mongoose
Not sure about the ID Bill,but I do like the shot a lot.Nice low angle and Sharp Features of the bird.The details are well visible.The WB is great.All in all a Nice shot.

nice low angle with good details. I wish we could see the feet and the bird was standing on something a bit more attractive than the mud. the WB is a bit cold, I might warm the colors a bit. TFS
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Very clean and detailed shot Bill. I would take a look at removing (cloning out) the highlight in the bg - the one under the head and to the right of the feet.
Super low angle and pose on this SPP, Bill. Agree with Arash on warming it up a bit.
Very nice young one Bill. Love the scaly back. It does need some warming and maybe a little boost in saturation. I am fine with the missing toes (the feet start below the joint you can see in the "leg"). Shorebirds often have their toes hidden in something and it is what it is.
Hi Bill, good shooting angle, well exposed, and you have brought out the finer detail nicely. The muddy beak adds interest, and another vote for warming the colours a touch more.
Thanks everyone for your comments. Re. WB, in the OP I had warmed the image slightly from the RAW file, to make the whites neutral (nape and cheek were about 221.223.218). In this repost I've used a warming filter at 10%, and a similar amount of saturation boost, and I admit that although the whites are now warmer than neutral, it does look more attractive and more like the normal coloration for the bird.
The mud may not be the most attractive substrate to our eyes, but it is the prevailing condition at JBWR and the Semipalms seem to like it. It does have the disadvantage of hiding the feet (or toes, as John pointed out); and in fact on this day it hid my feet up to the ankles on more than one occasion.
bill, like the repost, it does look a little warmer and more natural in colour. Nothing wrong in my eyes with the mud, it is natural for the bird to be in it. i may have cloned out the white thing( feather )in the BG on the right.
I like the setting, it's typical and handled well, (low shooting angle).
The repost is an improvement without a doubt.
I used to think that people who said things like "wish the feet were visible" were weird. It was difficult for me to understand.
Now I'm one of those people...! It happens I guess. It looks like the foreleg was almost going to lift up and reveal the muddy
foot, which would have been better imo, but yes, it is what it is.
Solid image sir.
Nice sharp image, and the repost does look better. The object in the water is a bit distracting, but overall a great image.
Nice profile portrait with lots of good details. The repost looks better, but I have a hunch it could go even warmer (redder)? I know what the others mean about the feet though...my latest plover image has the same issue as yours and I wished to see at least one of them up both here and in mine. I'm wondering what the little stubby sticking out of the leg is...
Thanks all. Daniel, I also wondered about the little stubby thing. Looks like a misplaced hind toe, although I'm not sure a Semipalm even has a hind toe, and certainly not there.
I think it's just a little bit of mud. I don't think the repost went far enough Bill- are you on a calibrated monitor?
Here's what I was thinking. In LAB colour, looking at the white on the neck, A was a bit green so I added a touch of Magenta, then upped the saturation by making the A and B curves steeper. Also lightened slightly with middle slider of levels.
Thank you John. My OP and repost were both a little green; I warmed up the repost (pane #8) a little, but probably not enough. The magenta in your repost helped. Using ColorPik to randomly sample spots on the neck I was coming up with readings like 218.211.202 on my repost, and 223.214.207 in a similar spot on yours. Not neutral in either one, but yours has a few points less differential between green and blue. I know I could use a lesson in color management. My monitor is a Dell U2412 which was supposedly calibrated in the factory and I haven't calibrated it since. Using ColorPik to sample the grays on the test strip in Kerry Perkins' sticky in ETL shows them to be neutral, which I took to mean that my monitor was OK. It is set to display in Adobe RGB preset, which I notice looks warmer on this image than in the sRGB preset.
Very nice fellow, good comments above. Like the bird and low shooting angle. Ditto about warming the exposure a bit.