eurasian golden plover bathing

[annmpacheco]

wings up after a bath in a spring pond in Iceland. Specular highlights are from the feathers out of focus on shoreline. Popular place to shed a few feathers for community bathers!
Cropped vertically, cleaned up eye catchlights. lifted belly shadows a bit.

D850
600mm
850mm

ISO 800
7.1
1/3200

[Aditya Sridhar]

Awesome shot Ann! I love the bird's pose with the raised wings, the light's beautiful too. I quite like the OOF specular highlights and the water droplets are just sick! The green strip is slightly distracting to my eye. Also, the bird doesn't seem to be tack sharp due to motion blur. Considering the low ISO you were using, maybe you could've opted for a higher shutter speed?

[Bill Dix]

Wonderful wing stretch and pose angled slightly toward you. I don't mind the green strip or the specular highlights at all. SS should have been fine, but I wonder if just a slight additional round of sharpening or detail extraction would help? Perhaps just a tiny bit tight in the frame for my taste.

[annmpacheco]

Awesome shot Ann! I love the bird's pose with the raised wings, the light's beautiful too. I quite like the OOF specular highlights and the water droplets are just sick! The green strip is slightly distracting to my eye. Also, the bird doesn't seem to be tack sharp due to motion blur. Considering the low ISO you were using, maybe you could've opted for a higher shutter speed?

Thank you , went back and realized i didnt sharpen the conversion to jpeg. Here's the repost.

[Aditya Sridhar]

Repost is a massive improvement! It looks great now

[Geoffrey Montagu]

This is an absolutely wonderful bathing capture, Ann. Great wings up and head position. Like the specular highlights and the slight motion blur. Repost spot on.

Geoffrey




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[dankearl]

Superb pose with the full raise wings and water drops of this attractive species.
The layered BG is really nice and perfect color to go with the bird... It wish the specular highlights were not in the BG but
with the water drops they cannot be smoothed out I realize.
Picky I know...

[John Mack]

Very nice. love that wing strech and all that splashing water. The repost is much sharper than the original. The vertical framing is nice as well.

[Dorian Anderson]

I love everything about this - the species, pose, splash, specular highlights, shooting angle - except the lack of sharpness on the head. The repost is certainly an improvement, but the sharpness isn't there for me. I would move the bird
up in the frame as it you have plenty of room above and that top left corner of the frame feels really vacuous.

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

Eye is not as sharp as it could be, but Wing position and water splash makes up for it.

Well captured.

TFS