Portrait of a Black Bellied Plover

[Grace Scalzo]

Enjoyed creating a few frames of this molting adult. He (or she?) ended up coming quite close so I opted to create a portrait as opposed to trying to cram him in the frame. Could have removed TC, but surroundings were messy.

Thank you for looking.

1/2000, f10, iso800
Canon 1dx, 600f4 + 2.0 tc (1200mm) + lowered RRS tripod
Cropped 2/3 of frame away, processed in LR5 and CC2014

[Shawn Zierman]

Gorgeous in every way really. The big eyed look they have is even better when framed tight like this. The plumage is rad, and I really dig that one black feather in the center of the chest....reminds me of a pendant on a piece of jewelry.

[Randy Stout]

Grace:

Wise choice to work in tight, lots of fine detail, well exposed, soft bg.

Cheers

Randy

[Satish Ranadive]

Spectacular portrait.Very nicely exposed, beautiful colors and nice details. Superb BG and composition.

Regards,
Satish.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Grace, brilliant IQ here, and you managed a good angled pose. You have nailed the sharpness, and looks like the light played ball. Well captured.

[mohammad reza shahab]

Superb BG,composition,details and beautiful colors.

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Great decision to keep that TC on and go for the head shot. Very nice portrait with magnificent detail. Love that you can really distinguish the iris from the pupil.

One thing I would try is to remove the magenta outline around the catchlight. Very minor on an otherwise great photograph

[Raybel Robles]

Lovely image! Great composition and details!

Here where I live we get close to a 100 of Black-bellied Plovers yearly over winter but I have never been able to get close to them at all. Very, very shy birds around here.

[Binu John]

What a great close-up portrait! Love the details and BG and the exposure is spot on. Brilliant use of aperture to get the perfect DOF. TFS

[arash_hazeghi]

great closeup portrait

[gail bisson]

Hi Grace,
I missed this image of yours. I really like it.
The IQ is awesome and the details superb. I am with Shawn on this one in that I like the single black feather on the chest.
Lovely BG as well.
Gail