Soaking Wet Semi

[denise ippolito]

Canon 40D
500mm +1.4 ex.
1/800 sec. at f/5.6
ISO 400
Tripod low to ground
early morning Sandy Hook a couple of weeks ago

This semipalmated Plover was just killed by a wavelet and got soaked. I thought it gave it a smoothed over look.
repost w/lightened eye.

[Harshad Barve]

beautiful image with great low angle , light , expo , details and BG
TFS

[Brian Barcelos]

Exposure looks great and I love the BG and strip of in focus pebbles. I wish he was looking a little more to his left though. I'm also wondering if you could lighten the eye a bit. Still a nice image.

Brian

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the angle, light and pose. I would have stopped down more and might sharpen the tail a bit less since it brought out some noise.

[Mike Milicia]

Love the setting, bg, angle, sharp detail, and excellent exposure!

Wish bird was not angled away quite so much. Would like to see some separation on the bill and
also would have helped with DOF.

[DanWalters]

I like how intent the bird is on feeding. Like the low angle and the background colors. Nice light as well.

[Stu Bowie]

Sweet light Denise, and I like the angled pose. Lovely soft colours in the BG, and a bit more separation of the beak would have been good. Overall, a pleasing image.

[edgar-junior]

Amazing low angle,nice details,exp,comp and BG.......;)

[Kiran Poonacha]

Loved the feel here denise, nice low angle and the curious looks of the bird adds well to the frame, great FG and BG too, loved the extra space around , congrats..

[David Fletcher]

This is lovely Denise. Great low angle and love the use of space. The "freshly washed" look adds.

[Morkel Erasmus]

I love this Denise. lovely low angle, soft light and the 'wet look' has served you well.

[denise ippolito]

Thankyou everyone for your comments. I appreciate them.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Lovely bird and compo. I particularly like the light. A pano version would look good in this one, IMO.

[James Salywoda]

So beautiful Denise I really love the soft colors and the mood captured excellent detail very nicely seen.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Great angle and I love the soaked look! Congrats Denise, excellent work. :)

[Gyorgy Szimuly]

Very nice low level image with sweet warm early lights.
Like this.

Szimi

[denise ippolito]

Thankyou all for your kind comments.

[Simon Bennett]

Great low angle, setting and very sharp.