Here is another file from the summer that I never got around to processing. Taken at Breezy Point in Queens, New York. I set up where there was a long flat area of the beach so that when the waves receded there was that perfect sheen over the sand. Bird was kind enough to pose for me in a spot where the foreground and background blend together. It allowed enough time for 5 frames (so half a second based on a 10 frames per second 7d2). Taken in my favorite light which is the last few minutes before sundown.
Canon 7d mark ii and Canon 500 f4 ii + 1.4x iii. ISO 400, F7.1, SS 1/2000. Tripod mounted while lying in wet sand.
Converted in DPP 4.5. Shadows +1, Highlights -3. In PS I applied NR to background, sharpened and cropped about 10% off. Also lowered the saturation of the reds in the beak and applied 70 pts Cyan to the reds in selective coloring.