Yesterday I must have seen 2000 each of Sanderlings and Dunlins, maybe more. Never seen anything like it. There must of been 8+ foot swells and I kept getting sprayed on, did I mention with the wind chill it was about 25 degrees Fahrenheit and I was laying on wet sand.
I cloned out a small strand of seaweed that was running parallel under the Dunlin. Self critique, I wish the legs of the Dunlin didn't intersect the Sanderlings head and wished his eye where fully opened. Thanks for looking and I appreciate all C/C.
Canon EOS 50D
Manual Exposure
Tv 1/1000
Av 8.0
Evaluative Metering
ISO Speed 400
Tamron 200-500mm
Focal Length 500mm
Hand Held
90% FF
I like the bird in the back but agree with your self critique. Moving a yard to your left would have eliminated the merge and likely gotten rid of the o-o-f ??? on the left frame edge. Sharp with a perfect EXP and a nice feeding pose. You might want to lose the few specular highlights; the Patch Tool is ideal for that.
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I like the mood, angle and light and agree with your points. If it were mine I would remove the orange patch on the left and the dark area in the lower left.
Manos & Kiran, I knew some wouldn't like the oof bird in the back but for some reason I love that look, I actually tried to get that which isn't easy. I think it gives it a ghostly appearance or that " I think someone is watching me feel".;)
Artie, The oof stuff is seaweed which was thrown all over the beach from the previous high tide. i know moving to the left would have been ideal but you know these guys hardly ever stop moving.:D I do have a few others that are similar but with more separation and the BG birds more oof. I'll post those next.
Axel, I'm going to reprocess with you and Arties suggestions later, thanks.
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The OOF bird in the back wouldn't distract me quite so much if there wasn't an intersection going on with the OOF birds left leg and the main subjects head.
Agree that moving a bit to the left might have helped you out here if you could have gotten the image before the sandeling once again walked in front of the back subject :)
Brian, Great job w/ the repost. I like the sharpness and the exposure very much. I agree w/ Jim regarding the bird merge-but I still like this very much.
Sanderling (What you lookin at Dunlin)
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