This common snipe was really cooperative.
While I was driving with my car, loooking for birds, I saw that bird walking around. So I stopped the engine, had to change bean bag and lens from the drivers window to the other side and was able to make pleasing images out of the window.
When I had some pictures I decided to open the door slowly and try to make images from a lower point of view. I was afraid to scare the bird and thought it might fly away. But it was quite relaxed and I layed down on the ground and made some more pictures. The bird was posing for me, looking to the right, to the left, staring at me and so on... I like the pose here, looking like a model with the right leg a bit in front of the left one.... framed in those little lilac flowers.
I hope the head angle is alright for the HAP....
I love it, here in Argentina these birds are almost impossible to get close to, I would give a bit more contrast and a little bit more saturation, but as is still works for me! Congrastulations!
Thank you all for your gentle and always honest critique.
I think you can call me : "Miss afraid of oversharpening and oversaturising".... :o
Like always these are the points of your critique.
So I tried to improve that image by sharpening a bit, adjusting the tonality and increasing saturation and contrast....
Don't you think that it is too much???
Better or worse?
Best between?
Rosl the respost looks much better in my opinion but I am a big fun of sharpening and saturation;)
The bird is rendered with fantastic details and love the eye contact. I think that the BG do not helps to isolate the bird, maybe a lower angle would be better. Excelent image all around
Dear Juan,
thaks for commenting my image and the repost. Love to hear your opinion.
Actually I was lying on the ground, but I used a bean bag, so I had hardly a chance to lower the angle.
May be, the bean bag was too much?
Hi Rosl, thanks for your kind words :) It is a joy to see your images and comment on them. Regarding the lower angle matter, I have seen people shooting with the bare lens foot resting on the ground but, as far as I know, more photographers tend to use a bean bag or a pan pod with excellent results (not my case :D). I think that the best way to get one of those fantastic low angles that we see here is going to a place were the ground is really flat, obviously, that is not always possible. I am sure that you went as lower as possible when shooting your snipe and what I should have wrote in my comment is something like “oh my god, this image is really good. I think that you were as lower as possible but, I cannot but wonder how much better it would be with a lower angle!”.
Maybe you can try to select part of the BG an blur a little bit in PS, this way the bird would be more isolated from the BG.
By the way, I forget to said that I like a lot the OOF violet flowers in the BG, they add a color touch to an image of a very criptic species and BG ;)
Common Snipe
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