American Oystercatcher by Isaac Grant, on Flickr
I have been a long time lurker on this forum and feel it is about time that I start to contribute. I have learned much from you guys so here is my public thank you. I still have much to learn about post processing and think it is not at all my strong point. As the title suggests this photo was taken a few moments before sunset on 4/18/16 at Breezy Point in Queens, New York.
Birds were feeding as the tide was going out and was on a steep bank. This shot is cropped 25% to try and make it mostly level. Shot while I was lying in the sand and on tripod set to be inches off of the ground. I have the Induro 304l and the Mongoose 3.6 (bought through affiliate links ).
Canon 7d2 with 500mm f4 ii + 1.4x iii, ISO 400, F8. SS 1/1600. Converted in DPP 4, highlights brought down a bit, shadows raised. In PS6 I applied noise reduction to background and sharpened using NIK sharpener Pro output sharpener.
All comments and critiques more than welcome. I should note that I do not know how to make a thumbnail appear on the forum. Any advice would be appreciated.