From last Sunday morning. The tide was going out. I was near water shooting away from the surf. One of a group of birds feeding.
D300s Nikon 600 witj 1.7 tc. 1/640 at f6.7 +3Ev. (Auto) iso 200.
If you look closely at the ripples, you can see that the image needs to be leveled.
I absolutely love the light and the bird and the simplicity of the design. And the layers of gray and blue. I have one very important question: do you have any more room below??????
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Can anyone age this bird? We are having tons of fun over in Avian ID and learning a lot in the process.
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Awesome feeding behaviour image! The suggested level correction would really do this image justice. The checkered (or "spangled") black-and-white plumage would identify this little fellow as a (worn?) juvenile.
Thanks for the comments. In order to rotate the image and have room to crop I had to go back to the raw file. BTW, I love how Nikon NX has all the steps you did. Then I rotated and saved as tiff. In PS, I had to re-do steps there, but of course, there is no list of what I had done. Tell me if you think the processing on the re-do is similar to the original.
Daniel is right on a worn juvie. It is molting to first winter. Notice a few newly molted pure gray scapulars and one pure gray tertial.
The repost looks great and the small bit of extra room at the bottom is a huge improvement. In the original post the head in the blue water was squeezed from the bottom--in the repost there is a nice gray border all along the bottom edge.
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