Sanderlings are a dime a dozen for some of you...but for us, although not rare during fall migration, are still a bird of interest. I see and photograph at least one every year and it remains a special bird to observe. This one stuck around for a few days, and I was able to photograph it one morning before it left the area for more southern pastures. A cloudy morning with slow shutter speeds which rendered the moving leg blurry, but I can live with that
Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/200s., f/5.6, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, usual eye work, sponge tool used to tease out some of the faint colours in the BG and FG.
It is always rewarding photographing an uncommon bird. Looks good, it could maybe stand a bit more contrast though. Comp and blurred leg work well for me.
For this type of images I prefer the leg to be sharp but obviously you did not have the speed/light to do that. Otherwise it is a very nice image, Daniel.
Nice looking image Dan. You are doing real well with these waders. Lovely POV, as usual, great control of the whites. Lovely BG and colours throughout.
I love the gentle light and the low angle rendering the background and foreground presantly OOF, as you said not much you could do about the foot, nice image Daniel.
Sanderling Patrolling the Beach.
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