Ruddy Turnstone Portrait

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Photographed at Barnegat Light a week ago. Some of these birds are very skittish, others walk right up to you, like this one.



1D3, 500f4, 1.4x, 1/1000s, f/11, EC -0.67, ISO 400

[Harshad Barve]

this is too good , awesome details and great compo
Picture Perfect as usual
TFS

[Rich Steel]

Beautiful portrait Axel. I like the way the colours of the bird compliment those of the background to produce a very harmonius photo.

Cheers

Rich

[Mital Patel]

fantastic portrait

[Jim Fenton]

Lovely subject Axel.....

My only nit is that the shadow area on the last 1/3rd of the bill is a bit distracting. Could this be lightened up with a QM?

[Rodney Flowers]

Great detail and pose. I love the background. Looks like it could have been shot in a studio with the background like that.

[Stu Bowie]

Good choice of aperture Axel, and I like the softer light, detail and colours. Lovely complimentary BG. I hope to see stacks of these guys and others in Cape Town.

[denise ippolito]

Axel, I like the details and sharpness. The BG does look like a studio backdrop. Very nicely done.

[Fabs Forns]

Beautiful whites and details in this on your face portrait. Love the eye!

[Paul Kusmin]

killer close-up, turnstones can be very skittish for sure (we deal with the Black turnstones on this coast) so i know how hard it can be to get anything decent.
Very nice Axel!

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Perfect portrait comp. And an awesome bokeh at f/11. The BG matcing the subject makes this very unique.

[Bonnie Block]

Nothing to say hrer but Beautiful!

[Dave Leroy]

Lovely photo Axel. Simple and straight forward. HA, eye contact and exposure are all bang on. It is always interesting to see how you handle the whites. Very nice. Dave

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Very nice portrait Axel. Love the light in this one.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Great portrait Axel, I just love portrait of wild birds. nice light and compo here... congrats..