Dotty

[Lance Peters]

Hope everyone had a a happy and safe Christmas...

Large Crop
D3
Nikon 300mm F2.8 with 1.7 X converter
F4.8
1/1000th
+0.3EV
400 ISO
Handheld.

Comments welcome.
:)

[Gus Cobos]

A sweet image Lance,
I like the details and the colors on your bird....the soft pale background compliments him well. you have a good head angle and good eye contact, with an ultra low angle of capture...very nice...good show...:cool:

[Nonda Surratt]

The large crop worked well..Gotta love that eye, great colors

[Alfred Forns]

Excellent pose and right on with the exposure Lance !! Whites look very good Might give it a slightly different ration with more room up front and less up top? Just taste It is excellent as presented !!!!

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Very pretty bird Lance. Exposure looks great and love the eye with the red ring around it. Like Al's suggestion about framing.

[Doug Brown]

I like the pose and low angle. The whites have a blueish cast. Here's a repost where I try to whiten the whites and tone down the BG a bit. How do you like it?

[denise ippolito]

The re-post is suddle and looks fantastic!! Lance,great shot eye looks wonderful!!

[Lance Peters]

Hi Doug - whites are better IMHO - didn't even notice it until you pointed it out - thanks :)

[Gail Spitler]

I think this could be the best dotterel so far. I find the bg very attractive.
Terrific
Gail

[David Thomasson]

Very nice, Lance. Just in a spirit of experimenting, I pulled the cast even more than Doug did toward the warm tones and darkened the background more with a gradient, so it is darkest at the top. Seems to help pull the eye downward into the subject .. to me anyway.

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[Glenn Romain]

Good Capture Lance ,love it . Lance i see that you used a 300mm F2.8 , i cant afford one for now but i was thinking about getting a 300mm F4 , i was wondering if you could add to the taught of getting a F4 should i save up for the 2.8 or get the F4 for now. Thanks in advance.

[Lance Peters]

Hi Glenn - The 2.8 is expensive - the F4 is a good lens - basically I got the 2.8 so that I could add the 1.7 X converter to it and keep autofocus (You loose 2 stops of light with the converter) Most of the time the 300 by itself is not enough reach for me, but I also wanted something that could be handheld. - I also have a sigma 300-800.

[Harold Davis]

i have to say i like what david did with this!! it seems like a lot of work in the pp but kinda worth it. SOLID base image, lance!!! great job on both the reposts!

[Oscar Zangroniz]

Great image Lance. You have excellent details and your exposure is dead on.

[David Thomasson]

i have to say i like what david did with this!! it seems like a lot of work in the pp but kinda worth it. SOLID base image, lance!!! great job on both the reposts!

Thanks. Actually, with an image like this -- clean edges around the subject -- it's quite easy to mask out the subject and adjust the background.