Nice behavioral photograph.....next time you might want to try to get down to a lower shooting angle....as this would bring more intimacy to your photograph.
EXP good and a wonderful job of getting him with his bill in the sand. A bit more sharpening would have helped and getting lower would have helped too. The breaking wave merging with the bird is a distraction.
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Agree with all commets above, specially with the one about getting lower, still as presetned is very nice, exposure, pose, comp, light, all verty good, big congrats!
It was really nice to meet you at the GTG! Fine work on the exposure and capturing the digging in the sand. I agree with Artie that the wave behind the bird is a bit distracting. I know the bird was likely probing and then moving, but I wonder how this would look if the wave were a bit farther along and nearly at the feet of the Willet. At DeSoto I often find myself reshooting the same subject to try and improve on the background waves.
I do have another shot that I'd passed up because the eye was not quite as sharp as this one.... I sharpened it, and it looks pretty good. I think it addresses some of the issues presented here! :)
I'll post it later this evening.
Amy D.
Last edited by Amy DeStefanis; 10-14-2008 at 05:51 PM.
Willet from Ft DeSoto
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