Food Fight

[James Galletto]

Two young Oystercatchers fight over a crab at Nickerson Beach.

Canon1D mkIII 500mm f4 1.4x, Manual exposure incident meter -1/3 1/1250 @ f7.1 Iso 400.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Love the diagonal shoreline, the tussle and perfect light. Perfect HA on both for me.
Thanks for sharing. :)

[Ramon M. Casares]

Great interaction, lovely light, and detail as well as BG and exposure, I really like the shadows and although I guess the ground was like than I wonder how some CW rotation would look like here.
Congratulations.

[colincarter]

superb shot, lighting, bokeh, subjects and composition are all first class. I agree with Ramon on the rotation, what does the shot look like if you level the water in the background?

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey James,
Great interaction and angle on both. I'm ok with angle as presented as the beach goes downward. Sweet light too!

[Grace Scalzo]

I think that the shadows add an interesting element.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

That looks like a relatively civil fight. :) Are these siblings, I haven't seen OCs with more than one chick at Nickerson.

I also like the shadow and would remove the sheen on the bills.

[Ryan Lambert]

Good image here James, good interaction captured, the sand flting and shadows make the image for me...congrats...

[Kobus Tollig]

Great exposure and interaction. I would like some space on the left

[Arthur Morris]

Good job of capturing the interaction. Good SH and EXP and two perfect HAs. If you look at the bird on our left, it would seem that some CW rotation would be called for.

Lastly, by getting a lot lower or right on the ground if possible (probably not possible given the slope of the beach), you might have been able to place the birds against an all water BKGR. As presented, the line of the sand/surf intersecting the birds is a bit distracting.

[Randy Stout]

James:

Very nice image for reasons already mentioned. I agree with Artie about he background horizon cutting through the birds, but fear you would lose the interesting shadows if you got lower. Always fun to try different comps if you have time to work the situation. I suspect this one happened and ended very quickly!!

Cheers

Randy

[James Galletto]

The camera was level and there was heavy surf and the action was way to quick.

Good job of capturing the interaction. Good SH and EXP and two perfect HAs. If you look at the bird on our left, it would seem that some CW rotation would be called for.

Lastly, by getting a lot lower or right on the ground if possible (probably not possible given the slope of the beach), you might have been able to place the birds against an all water BKGR. As presented, the line of the sand/surf intersecting the birds is a bit distracting.