Killdeer

[Rodney Flowers]

I am finally learning how to process images, so I decided it was time to start posting some of them.


Picture was taken in the early morning.
Canon EOS 50D & 600mm F4 with 1.4 teleconverter.
ISO 800 f/6.3 1/800sec
I cropped a little off the top and the right side.

I am here to learn so don't hold back.

[Fabs Forns]

Very nice pose and sharpness. Bird well placed in the frame. The whites in the neck look borderline, I'm sure you have a bunch of blown pixels under the eye. You could recover them at conversion in the highlight recovery, although this may be a product of jpg conversion. Not sure I like the OOF weeds to the lower right.
You could take advantage of the size limits to post a bit bigger. Thanks for sharing and belated welcome to BPN :)

[Tony Whitehead]

Nice and sharp and lovely warm plumage detail, Rodney. Fabs has covered all the points, I think.

[Dave Blinder]

Nice low angle and great eye contact Rodney. I agree on trying to recover some detail in the whites.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Gald you are noe posting Rodney! Whites are the biggest concern here, and Fabs has pointed you in the right direction. I like the leaf in front of the bird, but not so much the OOF clump in LRC. Nice low angle. Hoping to see more form you (and at a larger size!) :-)

[Joe Senzatimore]

You took advantage of the great light. Fine looking image. Good comp and detail.

[Rodney Flowers]

Thanks for all of the comments so far. I tried reprocessing the image. It may be that some of the whites in the neck are blown. I don't know if it is any better or not. I also took a look at the posting size and saved it at the maximum.

[Stu Bowie]

Great repost Rodney, and the whites on the neck look fine. Im going with Dan regarding the plants, but overall good pp work - especially no halos. Well done.

[David Fletcher]

Great repost Rod.. Very good job. Stu has these points covered, just as Fabs earlier. Very well done.

[Tony Whitehead]

Repost is a big step up, Rodney. Well done. Next step is a QM to nail the OOF blob.