Whimbrel

[Myer Bornstein]

Photographed at South Beach last August. No this isn't Miami's South Beach but Chatham on Cape Cod where ther is excellent viewing of migrating shore birds
Nikon D300
80-400mm @ 400mm
600mm (in 35mm film)
1/800 sec, f/14
Mode: Program
Metering: Center-weighted average
Exp comp: -1/3
ISO: 200
AF mode: AF-C
White balance: AUTO

Color adjustment and cropped

[Tony Whitehead]

Nice flight shot, Myer. Focus looks sharp and flight angle is good. Image looks to have quite a a strong red colour cast - tried a neutralised and brightened version to see how it looked. ISO 400 is my starting point for BIF with the D300 as it is very clean wrt noise and gives a bit more flexibility in maintaining high shutter speeds. I would have chosen aperture priority and a wider aperture to gain SS and blur out the BG more. Not clear on the reason for the -EC - with the bright sky +2/3 would seem more appropriate unless the crop is not representative of the image as framed. Looks like a good venue to catching migrants.

[Myer Bornstein]

Tony
Thanks your correction looks better. It did not look as red on my laptop when I adjusted the image. as for the -EV That was me not looking at my settings and setting everything back to neutral. After wading on shore from the boat the activity of the birds was so great I first look with binoc to ID the birds then started to photograph. I relized the setting problem a little later and corrected it.

it is a great venue for catching migrants. That day there was three different birding groups on the shore. We totaled 37 different species that day

Thanks :)