Plover

[Michael Pancier]

At Fort De Soto
Taken in waning hours of light
40d+500 4.0L
f/6.3
1/500
ISO 800
Natural Light
20% crop

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Light and pose are great, I only wish for a lower angle, would sharpen the bird more and run NR on the BG. As presented I would crop a bit off top and bottom.

[Randy Stout]

Michael:

What Axel said! With one minor change.

For my taste, with this nice soft light, I might just sharpen the eye selectively, rather than the entire bird. My concern is that increasing the sharpness might increase the noise which is starting to creep into the bill.

Randy

[Ramon M. Casares]

I wish for a lower angle, this would've improved the BG a lot IMO, nice light, pose, detail, exposure and colors. COngratulations.

[Dave Leroy]

Nicely done Michael. I really like the nice soft light and how it is shown. I like the idea of the crops and lower angle. Good show. Dave