Oystercatcher-juvenile's portrait

[Grace Scalzo]

Last night at Nickerson. Despite being chased around by people for a week, this little one exhibits no fear.

1/320, f5.6, ISO800 (Incident metered)
Canon 50D, 500f4 + lowered tripod

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Awesome portrait Grace. Love the sand on the bill. :) Great Exp.

[denise ippolito]

Grace, The details in the head are fantastic, I too love the sand on the bill. Really sweet!!

[Arthur Morris]

Cute little guy. Love the COMP and the perfect HA. You might consider lightening the iris, the face, or both just a bit.

[Lana Hays]

Grace
He's a survivor.....and a dang good one at that. He looks good and I'm with the others on the sand.

[Fabs Forns]

So great to see him out and about :)
Great advise from Maestro Morris.
I see a very slight magenta cast?

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Seeing this bird always puts a smile on my face. I like the intimate mood and agree regarding the infamous 50D magenta cast.

[LouBuonomo]

Posing for his surrogate Mom :)

[Jackie Schuknecht]

I think this bird has captured you Grace. A lovely portrait. Like the close-up and he looks like nothing ever happened.

[Ramon M. Casares]

So cute, I like the bright BG here, it looks great, lovely pose, and the atitude and pose is typical of a young bird so I like it, nice comp and detail. Congratulaitons.

[Harshad Barve]

So cute fellow this is
No critiques for him
TFS
Harshad

[James Shadle]

Grace,
I love the composition and intimate feel of this image.
IMO, a splash of fill flash would put this over the top!
James