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    Default American Oystercatcher

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    I captured this image along the beach on Alligator Point, Panacea, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

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    Joe:

    Oystercatchers are such fun subjects.

    You have a good shooting angle as it shows the shadow well. I like the little spit of sand he is on, with water front and rear.

    A few white spots look a bit overexposed, without a lot of feather detail showing.

    Would have been sweet if the reflection was a bit better.

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    Very nice Joe. I love the light and the reflection. Very nice details and pose.

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    A fun subject for sure. Good quality light and resulting nice colours. Neat shadow cast on the ground. I do find the top part of the image a bit unfortunate with all that white beach litter though. Tough to avoid unless getting down really low, which I realize is not always an option due to a few possible factors.

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    Hi Joe,
    You have a very nice basic image design. Do note that the subject is angled ever-so-slightly away from you... Most of the whites on the flanks look a bit on the gray side but one patch looks borderline hot. You might spend a while on beach clean-up with a variety of PS tools but best, as Dan mentioned, would have been to get down flat...

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    Thanks everyone for viewing, commenting and suggesting improvements to the image. Very much appreciated...

    Above is an edit with some housekeeping done to clean up the background. I shot this image from the deck of a house I rented on Alligator Point in Panacea, Florida. The deck over hanged and extended out over the bay. The Oystercatcher flew in landed briefly and quickly flew off. I got off two frames before it left being spooked by my presence on the deck. Thanks again for all.
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    The repost clean-up improves the image by miles. Well done. a
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    ps: you also did much better with the WHITEs on the flanks. a
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    Thanks Artie, a little dodging and burning with the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom helped the whites. Thanks for looking again and commenting.
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