Sanderling Portrait.

[Daniel Cadieux]

In this image the young Sanderling has a full crop, and I do not mean a full-frame image (which it is), but rather biologically. It had fed on 3 large worms in less than 15 minutes before I took this image and now his crop is bulging . It is so much fun photographing these confiding young shorebirds, especially when you can creep up to them for frame-filling portraits!

Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure ,evaluative metering, 1/320s., f/10, ISO 800, natural overcast light, handheld, FF, darkened pupil.

[Henry Domke]

Nice tight shot. It might be more effective if you brightened it.

[Randy Stout]

Daniel:

I like the 'natural overcast light', I hate the artificial kind. It does allow soft detail to show well. The very soft purple cast in bg plays well with his colors.

I appreciate Henry's point about it being a bit brighter. I often run into this with my early morning loon shots, where my memory of the event flavors the final output, whereas the viewer wasn't there to have that context.

In some cases, I do two versions, one for me, one for general consumption!

Cheers

Randy

[Joseph Przybyla]

Your image makes me want to go photograph some Sanderlings. Nice image Daniel, thank you for sharing.

[Simon Wantling]

Nice image Daniel. I like the brightness as is.

[Dvir Barkay]

Very nice, I too bind the brightness fine, maybe a tad bit more feather detail in the whites.

[Daniel Cadieux]

I like the 'natural overcast light', I hate the artificial kind.

Ha ha...brain fart! I always type "natural light" and I was thinking how it was overcast at the time...my brain and fingers combined the two

[Marina Scarr]

Great feather details here, Daniel! Love the pink hue in the BG.

[Binu John]

Beautiful shot! Excellent exposure, light, IQ and BG. Well done!