exercising

[John Chardine]

This 3-week old Piping Plover chick was preening, stretching and exercising its wings. I was lucky to make the image as the wings were raised. Hope you like it.

Crop, BG evened out a little and sharpened. The eye was lightened a little. I'm having quite some trouble controlling colour in my work flow right now so I hope that isn't way off.

Canon EOS 50D, 500mm f4 x 1.4 tx = 700mm
capture date: Wednesday, 5 August 2009, 4:41 PM
exposure program: Manual
ISO speed: 640
shutter speed: 1/2000
aperture: f7.1
exposure bias: +0.0
metering: Pattern
light source: Auto
flash: ON - flash extender, no compensation

[Randy Stout]

John:

I like it. Love how it shows the transition from chick down to adult feathers. Great wing position, color looks good to me, nice DOF. I might consider pulling down the mid tones just a bit, but that of course depends on how this little guy looked to you in person.

Thanks for sharing.

Randy

[Keith Bauer]

Cute little guy. Overall a nice image. Feels a bit bright to me. I'd consider bringing the entire image down a bit in overall exposure.

[Harshad Barve]

lovely wing position, great details
Agreed on pulling down midtones
TFS

[Subharghya]

So Cute and looking even more Adorable with wings raised .. the Fill Flash looks a bit strong to me which can be toned down I feel

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Exposure wise it's excellent. I am not sure of colors as I never saw this species. Looks fabuolous with the raised wings. :) Thanks for sharing.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Wow.. what exposure, too good. loved the pose, the low angle and complimenting BG... Congrats...

[Mital Patel]

too good this is.. superb exposure. dont know bout the square framing as personally i dont like it but for this image it goes fine as the entire attention is been grab by the bird moment.

[Stu Bowie]

The exposure looks good to me, and love the raised wings. This is sharp and I like the overall detail. I feel this needs a slight CW rotation.

[arash_hazeghi]

Amazing shot, love the full wings on this cute little guy, great detail, belly is a tad bright on my screen

[denise ippolito]

John, Really nice exposure and the details in the wings are a treat to see so closely. I like the pose and the BG is lovely. Well done.

[John Chardine]

Thanks everyone and sorry to be so long to get back (I had a wedding to shoot this weekend!).

Consensus is that the image is overall too bright. I'll work on it.