dowitcher

[arash_hazeghi]

A shot from this evening, not much activity. I think this is a short-billed dowitcher but I am not as good at id'ing birds. I let Artie to make the call


shot with the A1 and 200-600 at 600mm. f/6.3 ISO-1250 1/4000 sec handheld processed with C1P. I had to compress the image quite a bit to make it under 600KB. The original has mind blowing amount of detail I wish you could see.

[gail bisson]

Yes, it is a short billed.
Lovely wing position and terrific light as usual.
If mine, I would clone out the second catchlight.
Did you work on the white stripe going down the back? It looks a bit grey to me.
Another superb BIF,
Gail

[Kurt Bowman]

Very nice wing position on this. Like the warm colors with water BG. Nice work!

[annmpacheco]

Hi Arash, this BIF image seems a bit lacking in IQ compared to most of your images. It appears slightly crunchy, and i know it is somewhat wet. The face has less detail and slightly oof... And its not my monitor, just my opinion. Is it a good inflight yes , but not one of your greatest... Top of the back looks "processed..." uh oh.... TFS

[arash_hazeghi]

Hi Arash, this BIF image seems a bit lacking in IQ compared to most of your images. It appears slightly crunchy, and i know it is somewhat wet. The face has less detail and slightly oof... And its not my monitor, just my opinion. Is it a good inflight yes , but not one of your greatest... Top of the back looks "processed..." uh oh.... TFS

hi Ann all I can tell you is that this is the sharpest BIF image I have made to date. So your comments makes no sense from where I am looking at the image. I don’t know what’s wrong on your side. Sorry I can’t help you. And no the bird isn’t wet at all. The only thing I can think about is that you're using a consumer Mac and need to press CMND and - key a few times to defeat the display scaling.


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[annmpacheco]

hi Ann all I can tell you is that this is the sharpest BIF image I have made to date. So your comments makes no sense from where I am looking at the image. I don’t know what’s wrong on your side. Sorry I can’t help you. And no the bird isn’t wet at all. The only thing I can think about is that you're using a consumer Mac and need to press CMND and - key a few times to defeat the display scaling.


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nothing wrong on my side, we just disagree.

[arash_hazeghi]

nothing wrong on my side, we just disagree.

Feel free to disagree, but only one us can be correct, I will post a 100% crop later. I Bet it will quite amusing once you see it. I wonder what you will say.

[Paul Burdett]

Not much to add, but I will say that my first impression was "over sharpened" (especially the head) but maybe it's just the web size compression or the A1's ability?

[John Mack]

Looks great. I like how the bird is right above the water.

[arash_hazeghi]

here is the 100% unsharpened crop from RAW from the head and the wing where you can count individual feathers. My previous static shots didn't have this much detail for sure. I don't think anyone can post a 100% unsharpened crop from raw that is any sharper.

coarse and crunchy.... LOL I think these crops speak for themselves.

[Arthur Morris]

Love the full downstroke flight pose and the incredible look at the spread tail. Based solely on the tail pattern, the bird is absolutely a Long-billed Dowitcher as the dark bars are several times wider than the light bars. There are other more technical differences as well. ID was confirmed by Richard Crossley and Julian Hough, two Brits who really know their stuff.

with love, artie

[arash_hazeghi]

Thanks Artie that’s definitely easier than going by bill length!