The "peeps", a collective group of small sandpiper species, are always fun to photograph as they forage for small food items by zig-zagging non stop along mudflats and beaches. Tough to photograph with such low light I had on that evening, but once in a while they stop for a second or two, allowing for anything other than a blurred streak .
Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/200s., f/5.6, ISO 800, natural light, handheld (prone in the mud), darkened the pupil, lightened the iris, small crop for comp, darkened the FG.
Excellent shooting angle, not easy to look up at a peep. Good catchlight, and I like the one prominent foot. Nice that you captured it on the tiny rise to allow the one foot to show.
Good call on toning down the blurred foreground, allows enough foreground to balance the image without the brighter OOF dominating the image.
Good job all round - field-craft, composition, exposure, image development all exemplary. It would be nice to see some more of the left foot as viewed but still a fine image. Regards, Ian.
Hi Daniel.
Nice catch of this small beauty. Nice low perspective giving a wonderfully blurred BG. Agree would have been ideal to show the entire left foot but still a first rate image.
Allen
All been said. They certainly do take some keepingup with if anything like ours !! Love the BG but can'tquite work out the front blurred bar Would have been nice blending inwithe the back area but no big deal.
John
Love the colour palette on this image...very pastel like. Great low angle, great details and sense of movement with the striding pose...we know this bird is always moving so nice to portray that in the image as you have...
Hi Dan, love the low perspective here, together with the angled pose. I like the soft light, and detail over the Sandpiper, and that varied smooth coloured BG rounds the image off nicely.
I cant remember when I last photographed in the evening.
Semipalmated Sandpiper
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