Buff Breasted Sandpiper, (adult)

[Shawn Zierman]

This particular bird was photographed during fall migration 2012 in Northern Minnesota. I found over 30 buff breasted sandpipers during this year's (2014) migratory push of this species through my area, and non of them were adults. Canon 7d, Sigma50/500os, iso800, f8, 1/500, small crop, NR to the bg and fg, USM to the subject and the in focus grassy areas. In RAW conversion, I did cool off the white balance a little. The light was very late evening light. The two flowers are only dandelions, but I left them in because I thought they added some visual pop in an otherwise visually simple scene. Comments and critiques welcome.
Regards,
Shawn Zierman.

[Tobie Schalkwyk]

Nice shot enhanced by the soft BG Shawn. Pity about the soft FG but no way of excluding it here. The sharpening might have gone just a tad too far but beautiful regardless.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Shawn, I really like the light in this, and in turn has brought out lovely warm colours throughout. Great low perspective, and the sandpiper is nice and sharp. That BG is simply stunning, and nothing wrong in keeping your dandelions.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Beautiful bird, nicely shown. Fantastic evening light, wonderful background. Thank you for sharing.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Good call keeping those dandelions in there...besides, they can be thought of any yellow species of flower anyway. Excellent low angle, sweet light, and I like the BG too. I do see a bit of a magenta cast to the image so perhaps adding a touch of greens to the colour balance would help without affecting the sweetness of the light's warmth.

[Tom van den Brandt]

Lovely light and nice pose. BG looks great and I love the yellow OOF flowers.

Tom

[Andreas Liedmann]

Great light , lovely colors with a very nice low POV and good DOF. I am fine with overall colors , even if there is a slight magenta cast , but at an acceptable level at least for me.

Nice work , Shawn . TFS Andreas

[gail bisson]

Very nice. I am glad you kept the flowers in.
beautiful light and great POV.
Magenta cast mentioned and easily fixed.
Loving this sandpiper series. Keep them coming!

[Jim Crosswell]

Beautiful image Shawn! I like the low angle, OOF dandelions, IQ, BG, pose, composition and sweet light.

[Binu John]

Beautiful shot! Love the pose, light, BG and low POV! Those oof flowers look great! Agree about the magenta color cast.

[Shawn Zierman]

Alright...tried to fix the magent cast...thank you kindly for the advice.

[Gabriela Plesea]

Lovely image with fantastic colours, Shawn! Light is superb and I like your RP, well done!!!

Kind regards,