Ruddy Turnstone

[Courtney Moore]

Hi everyone, this is my first post. I am a fifteen year old girl who has been taking photos of animals and nature since I was six. I especially love avian photography and would like to make it my career in later years. I have been watching this website for about a year now and thought that it was time I joined. I love looking at the photos and reading the comments.
I just got back from a family vacation to Wildwood, New Jersey. My mother took me to Stone Harbor to take photos of the shorebirds before my grand-parents got up in the mornings.... Thankfully it was low tide when we arrived every morning and the mossy jetties were sticking out of the water. I got this photo of a Ruddy Turnstone on the jetties one of the mornings. I would appriciate critiques so I can improve my photographic skills. Thank you!


Canon 7D, 100-400mm, 1/1328 sec, ISO 400, f5.6, handheld, lightened iris + darkened pupil

[Karl Egressy]

Very nice first post. I miss the rich red color of the wing, but otherwise it is done well.

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Courtney,

A splendid first post here on BPN! It's not often that I see these guys walking on such green vegetation. Nicely captured.

Great pose with the one foot up. Nice head angle too. If I were to add one thing, it would be a round of sharpening throughout. Otherwise, nicely done!

Miguel

[Courtney Moore]

Thanks Karl and Miguel for your comments. I think the main reason this guy isn't as red as other Ruddy Turnstones is that he/she is in molt and not in breeding plumage. But I did try to darken the reds and sharpen him in photoshop. Is this one better?