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[Joe Senzatimore]

Going through some older files and found this Buff-breasted Sandpiper from 2007. We don't see these here to often so it was nice to be able to get some images of such a beautiful shore bird.
250 ISO f5.6 at 1/1000th
cropped to vert. from horizontal

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great find and light, I might selectively sharpen the head and wish for more head turn. If you have, maybe a bit more room on the right.

[Randy Stout]

Joe:

Nice looking bird, with good light, complimentary background.

Wish the head angle was more our way. My guess is your focus point was on the body, as to my eye the back is sharper than the eye. Perhaps a bit of selective sharpening of the head.

Thanks for posting!

Randy

Joe:

Axel must have been typing at same time! His entry was not there when I started. Sorry to duplicate his thoughts, but certainly agree!

[Arthur Morris]

In addition to the excellent critiques above you needed to point the camera a bit down (to give the feet more room) and a bit to the right--there is more room from the tail to the frame edge than from the bill tip to the frame edge....