Bathing Sanderling

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Photographed at Sandy Hook this morning. The shorebirds were quite active and not overly skittish.



1D3, 500f4, 1.4x, 1/1250s, f/8, ISO 400

[Ian Mason]

Beautiful! Lovely light. I love the way you have caught the water drops.

[Randy Stout]

Axel:

good shooting and head angle. Love the flying drops and the blurb of water going up body.
Soft light, very nice.

Might try a bid off bottom and add a bit more to the right.

Cheers

Randy

[Steve Canuel]

Nice angle, light, and BG color. I like the way the flying droplets surround the bird and the water coming off the back and shoulder.

[Grace Scalzo]

Axel, I'm not sure about his image, it seems to lack your usual detail, esp in the whites. I do love the flying drops and the water on his shoulder.

[Dan Brown]

Great capture Axel! I have to agree with Grace however, this post lacks the "superhuman detail" that your posts usually include! BTW, Is this a Semipalmated Sandpiper?

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Thanks for the suggestions. I compared my laptop and desktop where I do the post-processing. The brightness on the desktop was quite a bit lower, I will work on it again tomorrow.

Dan, I think it is a sanderling but it would not be the first time I get a shorebird species wrong. :)

[Stu Bowie]

I like how his chest has pushed the water in front of him, and good to see the sprayed droplets. I would maybe take a bit off the bottom.

[arash_hazeghi]

Perfect Axel!

[Gal Shon]

Lovely image, the water that falling from the shoulder adds a lot of interest.
I like the light, flying drops, sharpness, angle, BG and FG.
Agree with taking some from the bottom. I'll add some top and right.
The whites are too bright on my monitor.

[Ed Vatza]

Whether Sanderling or Semipalmated, the bird looks good and I like the pose. The only thing I am wondering is about the white between the wing and the water. It looks very bright and like it could use a bit more detail on my monitor.

[Harshad Barve]

Fantastic image with lovely details , awesome BG , water droplets looks great here
TFS

[Gyorgy Szimuly]

You are right Axel. This is a Sanderling. Black shoulder is unmistakeable.
I love the image as the water moves on its back. Whites has less detail but it is mentioned.

Szimi

[Kiran Poonacha]

Great one Axel Bhai, loved the feel here.. congrats..