Piping Plover

[John Mack]

This image was created at Nickerson Beach Park on 6/29/19 at 5:49AM. Image processed in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Hand held, Medium crop.

Canon 5D MarkIV
Sigma 150-600 Contemporary
600mm
ISO 4000
f6.3
1/500sec

[dankearl]

Nice subject and nice IQ.
I would enhance the catchlight and go to 16X9 with some off the top.

[Mervyn Marsh]

really like the softness of this shot, sweet looking wader, Cheers, Merv

[Dorian Anderson]

Detail looks pretty good considering you were up against it with light. I might move him up a bit to fill the upper part of the frame and exaggerate the foreground bokeh.

[kevin Hice]

John great shot and details look great. I saw where Dan suggested enhancement of the catch light. I guess you could but only slightly, as you shot in this low soft light. Looks natural and I like the softness of it. You could go either way but again too much wouldn't look right.
Little noise in the background. TFS

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

I like the shot a lot. I have similar shot from Nickerson Beach which I will post soon.

So happy to see these little guys with chicks...

TFS

[Aditya Sridhar]

Great shot John! Love the soft light and the dirty beak. I would suggest cloning out some of the distracting OOF debris. I agree with Dorian's suggestion to move the bird upwards but I also like the composition as is.