Head On Semipalmated Plover

[Aidan Briggs]

Semipalmated Plover from the same day as my last post. A little tight on the bottom, but there isn't any more room there.

Played around with a few different crops and came up with this one.

50D, 100-400 at 400mm
1/250, f/9, ISO 320
Fill Flash at -2

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the 'angry' look, angle and sharpness. The bird could go a bit lighter for my taste and I would remove the white rotation triangle in the lower right. I could also see this as a vertical crop.

[Aidan Briggs]

Thanks Axel. Wow, I completely missed that in the LRC....fixed it

[Peter Farrell]

Super shot of this bird. I like the perspective and the serious look on the bird.
At first I thought he was in snow, but seeing you reside in southern Cal I'm going to guess its the surf.

[Danny J Brown]

Simple, clean image and very well composed. I like this one Aidan. Beautiful bird.

[Steve Canuel]

Like your choice of crop. Also like the soft light and details.

[Dave Leroy]

Very good looking bird. I also like the choice of crop. Nice and sharp. Dave

[Aidan Briggs]

Thanks for the comments, everybody. Peter, yes this is surf. It was an overcast day.

[Arthur Morris]

Ditto the positives above. I added some below with the Clone Stamp Tool and increased the contrast by brightening the whites. And a small Hue-Sat boost.

Aidan, Please shoot me Ray's e-mail address. Thanks.

[Harshad Barve]

liked those angry looks and nice techs , Guruji's repost looks better here
TFS

[Aidan Briggs]

Thanks Artie. The repost is definitely better. Just sent you the e-mail.

[Arthur Morris]

YAW. I will e-mail Ray now. I am hoping to be involved as much as possible.