Wilson's Snipes

[Jason Lee]

Canon 7D

Canon 400mm F5.6

1/ 320 Sec

F 11

ISO 200


Yes...... Photo were taken from a kayak!

[Satish Ranadive]

Jason:
Absolutely superb image of snips with beautiful exposure.Nice to see so many together in natural environment. Excellent head turns and eye contact.
I like the DOF. Love the lights,details on birds and 3D effect caused by backdrop and foreground.I would take little bit off the top and bottom. TFS.

Regards,
Satish.

[Jon Rista]

Wow, what a shot! Great poses on all three birds. Excellent color. I'm not sure I would take any off the bottom as Satish recommended, however I'd edit out that blade of grass right in the middle of the foreground.

[christopher galeski]

nice image and pose,the light handled well,if mine,would clone out the light colored hump and grass in the forground.well done.

[Daniel Cadieux]

I haven't seen three together like this before, way cool! You also got three excellent HAs and what I love most is that you got one front, one side, and one back pose. Too bad the water was filled with so much debris, and I also about the OOF foreground grass, but still a very strong image. Well exposed and sharp. Way to go with f/11 to get them all within DOF.

[Jason Lee]

Thanks everyone! I was rather thrilled to see these all together. There was a fourth one up higher on the stump, but it jumped down, and scurried out of frame. I watched them for a good 20 minutes or so, until a Greater Yellowlegs landed near by, and flushed them from the area. Until I master the art of cloning, my photo will have to remain as they are seen through my lens.

[Petros Petrou]

This is a very cool image. Great sharpness for such a low shutter speed from a kayak! Great light and 3 very good HAs!. I agree that the out of focus grass in the FG could be removed but this is a very good image anyway. TFS.