Dunlin

[Karl Egressy]

I went to one of my favorite places, Grindstone Creek Marsh in Burlington to find some targets after re-calibrating all of my lenses and cameras with Reical FoCal software, bought from UK.
This bird is a late migrant and it was alone, very close to shore.
The light was late afternoon light the sky was covered most of the time with moving white clouds.
Thanks for looking.

Canon 500 f4.0 L IS
Canon 1D MarkIV
Manual Setting
ISO 800
f 5.6
1/320 s
Hand hald sitting on a stone rigt at water (mock) level
Active focal square was on the head.

[Steve Wasson]

I love the bird & background. Whites seem a bit bright at bottom right, I suppose due to lighting angle. I would like the light to be from the front rather than the rear, esp. on the face. I like the rippling water on the right, but wish the breaking OOF "wave" on the left wasn't so prominent. Still a pleasing image!

[Daniel Cadieux]

Awesome details, and I love the hint of colour in the otherwise gray plumage! The head looks angled away ever so slightly (relative to body angle)...not too bad, but would have been even better angled slightly towards us. Dunlins tend to be a bit later migrants...still hoping to see (and photograph) my first one of the fall season.

[Frank Schauf]

Beautiful portrait, great details and sharpness, Karl.

[dankearl]

Very nice close up Karl.
The colors are really nice.

[gareth thomson]

Nice work. I second Daniel's and Dan's comments about color.. and feather details. Stunning in that regard and a nice comp. (gt)

[David Salem]

Sweet exposure and details. Bird pops against the BG nicely. All around great job.

[Nico Steenberg]

Karl, excellent low angle shot and well exposed detail captured. I like the comp. Well done.