After last year's bust of a fall shorebird migration due to high water levels everywhere locally, it is "back into business" this year and boy does it feel good to be able to crawl around in the muck and water again!! At the beginning of the season I joking told a couple of colleagues that all it took was one Least Sandpiper to make me happy...a few days later, I got my one.
Canon 7DII + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC III, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/1000s., f/5.6, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, a few imperfections removed but rather minimal. Desaturated the fresh leaves as they were glowing green too much. No idea where that "arc" in the reflection comes from (it's in the raw file), but I opted to leave it in.
Last edited by Daniel Cadieux; 09-04-2021 at 06:08 PM.
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Nice and sharp, maybe lower the contrast a tad??
Reflection of bird is superb but there is a circle shaped dark area above it that does not appear in the BG above.
I would smooth it out or fix whatever it is..i think you just missed on the masking?
Looks great to me. I have seen some strange inexplicable things in a few raw files before ... Juvie leasts are simply gorgeous. And so is this image.
with love, artie
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Least Sandpiper Reflection.
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