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    Of the four images in yesterday's blog post, Barnegat Miracle, this was my favorite and the favorite of most others.

    This Purple Sandpiper was photographed on the recently concluded Barnegat Jetty IPT with the Canon 800mm f/5.6L IS lens and the EOS-1D X. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1 stop: 1/400 sec. at f/5.6.

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    Beautiful image of a lovely bird Artie, the rear foot of the bird is OOF, could the ISO be raised a bit to use a aperture like 6.3 or 7.1 to fix that? And maybe a lower angle ? Great detail and exposure on the bird though. Like it a lot.

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    Beautiful image of a much desired bird. Great details, sharpned and good DOF.
    The right leg mentioned earlier might have moved during the shot, hence the lack of sharpness.

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    excellent pose, details and I love the perch

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    Your Sandpiper in itself is well presented Artie but a lower shot separating the rock from the subject would have been more preferred as it somewhat fights with the subject for attention. It would also give the opportunity to add more of the complementary background.

    The beak looks to be a smidgen overdone in post processing to the point of being un-natural.

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    Arthur Sir:
    Absolutely superb image with wonderful color scheme.
    Love the great details,colors and composition.

    Happy Holidays Sir.
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    Satish.

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    Note to all: thanks for your kind words. As to the lack of d-o-f, if I had had more time and more light, I would likely have stuck with f/5.6 or maybe f/6.3 or even f/7.1. At this distance getting down to f/16 would have increased the depth of field about .6 inches past the point of focus and would not likely have rendered the far foot in completely sharp focus. But it would have had several negative effects:

    1-It would have sharpened the edge of the rock below the belly making it well more of a distraction.
    2-It would have made the very pleasing background butt-ugly by revealing the texture in the waves....

    As regulars here know I have been focusing on the eye and working wide open of close to it for nearly three decades. I love the look and I am not about to change now. Stopping down a lot is just not me .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Richard Mc Donald View Post
    Your Sandpiper in itself is well presented Artie but a lower shot separating the rock from the subject would have been more preferred as it somewhat fights with the subject for attention. It would also give the opportunity to add more of the complementary background.

    The beak looks to be a smidgen overdone in post processing to the point of being unnatural.

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    I agree that lower would have been better but the bird was teed up on a rock in heavy wind and I needed to make the image now because I loved the light and the background. But with the limited depth of field I do not find the belly/rock merge too distracting. You comment on the bill being over-processed leaves me scratching my head because very little was done to the bill....

    I have uploaded the somewhat underexposed (sharpened) extracted JPEG for your comment. I would love to know what looks unnatural about the bill.
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    I love this one, plump little guy, purple feathers, great colors. One of those images that just makes me smile.

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    Thanks Grace. It was a sweet bird in a sweet spot in sweet light.
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    That's a beauty! I like the colors blending from perch to background...

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    Artie, beautiful shot. The only Purple Sandpipers I saw when I was at Barnegat a month or so ago were on the side of the jetty,near the water, not top of it . I really like the pose and position of this one.

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    As an art piece I much prefer the OP. The second image just looks a bit gloomy.
    The Purple Sandpiper is one killer little shorebird!!!

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    Lovely quality image! All the colours work beautifully together. I wish members would read the comments, particular replies - you explained why the second posting was darker!!! The important parts of the bird are 'pin' sharp i.e. the head, eye and bill, and most of the plumage - yes the rear foot is not covered by the depth of field and unsharp, but so is the tail, and I find that no way detracts from the pleasure of viewing the image. Why does EVERYTHING have to be completely sharp? Our eyes work at an aperture of approximately f2.8 so we never see everything 'pin' sharp - it is just that we are constantly scanning what we are looking at, and our brain gives us the illusion that the object (in this case a bird) is completely covered by the d.o.f.
    Beautiful plumage colours - it is nice to see the purple which gives it its name.

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    Thanks Melvin. We are on the same page .
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris Martinez View Post
    As an art piece I much prefer the OP. The second image just looks a bit gloomy. The Purple Sandpiper is one killer little shorebird!!!
    Chris, As it clearly stated, the second image is the unprocessed original .
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    This was also my favorite from your blog. A lovely shot of this little sandpiper - I've rarely seen them sitting up so nicely. I agree that lower would have been better, but I know how difficult (often impossible) that can be at the jetty. I wondered if you had saturated the bill and legs in the OP - I guess you didn't. In any case I liked the effect. A fine image.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Morris View Post
    Chris, As it clearly stated, the second image is the unprocessed original .
    Terribly sorry Arthur..... I must have skimmed the sentence and did not process it.
    Last edited by Chris Martinez; 12-26-2012 at 06:23 PM.

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    Getting back to this one Artie I see that your original still has the exact same to me over-saturated bill so, I take it this is how the bills' colour is naturaly.

    Richard

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