Purple Sandpiper

[Krijn Trimbos]

From a week ago. Taken on one of the best winter afternoons of this winter so far. This one was very cooperative to sit on such a nice perch. Cleaned up a bit of the perch, with the patch tool, to get rid of some bird poop :D Otherwise the post processing was pretty straight forward; a bit of cropping, levels, curves, saturation.

C & C are welcome,

Canon EOS 50D 1/640 f8 Manual
ISO 500
Canon 300mm L USM F2.8 + 1.4 Converter
Handheld

[Dan Walker]

Really like this a lot, Krijn. Great colors, detail, and pose. Well done

Dan

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Great low angle and well composed. Like the pose, eye contact and clean BG. Many thanks for sharing Krijn.

[Jim Fenton]

Love the image and the crop for the lighting, the surroundings and the birds posture.

The only two things I probably would have tried would be to tone down the brighter areas in the coverts a tad and perhaps bring up the shadows just a bit in the darker portion of the seaweed just ahead of the bird itself.

Overall, I would have been more than happy to have captured this :)

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great light, details and BG. I might try to clone out the seaweed touching the bird's chest.

[Ramon M. Casares]

I just looooove this one, great light, great pose, great compo, terrific textures and BG and very nice colours! Congratulations Krijn.

[Jasper Doest]

Finally got one my friend! What a lovely day we had. I'm still surprised how different it looked from my angle. Will post one later. Cheers!