RedCaped Plover

[Derek Willcox]

Taken a few years ago the smallest plovers in Australia
sth coast of NSW

crawling pushing boogie board with lens
1DIV Canon 600mm f4 is +1.4
1/1250 f8 iso 800
ACR adjustments slight crop resized sharpened

[Karl Egressy]

Lovely composition, nice low shooting angle. Love the lose, feather details and wet sandy foreground.

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Your lowering efforts paid off beautifully, Derek. Would love to see these beautiful birds in person one day. Nice eye contact, great light and detail.




Geoffrey

[gail bisson]

This is lovely.
Great clean sand, nice view of the feet, love the mounds and the color palette.
Excellent POV ( I couldn't live without my skimmer pod and the ability to do the crab crawl when photographing shorebirds) and excellent IQ.
Nice light , good exposure and nice comp.
No nits from me,
Gail

[Sandy Witvoet]

A stunner Derek! Perfect POV and really like the FG (well, and BG too!) Boogie board worked well!

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Beautifully done Derek.
Perfect DOF, POV and light.
Lovely framing.
Well done mate.

[WillieHall]

good trick to get low, will have to try it

[christopher galeski]

Beautiful image Derek,nice light,good POV,love the bumpy sand,great BG makes the bird look 3D,the bird is sharp with nice detail and pose.well done.

[Mike Poole]

I saw the is the other day but didm't get round to commenting. Glad I stumbled across it again, as it is more than just a nice low POV plover shot, the lines in the ground make it something special. I bet it looks great in print

Mike

[dankearl]

This has one of the best FG I have seen with any shorebird, just excellent and the bird looks great..

[William Dickson]

Beautiful image Derek. Detail, pose, POV, BG perfect. Well done and thanks for sharing

Will

[Shawn Zierman]

Dreamy super cool substrate!! The light quality is really nice and I think you nailed the technical aspects. I like the spacing between the legs and the body angled slighty towards the viewer. I also enjoy where you placed the subject in the frame and the overall composition.