White-fronted Plover

[Morkel Erasmus]

My long weekend had been cut short for personal reasons, so I decided to try and catch up on my immense backlog of avian images to process. Of late I have been camped out in the Wildlife and Landscape galleries...:o

This was taken on the South African west coast on New Year's Day this year. I had some fun with these plovers and their ultra-adorable chick.

All comments welcome - cropped for composition, this is about 80% of the original image.

Techs:
Canon 1000D with 100-400mm L IS USM @ 400mm
f7.1 @ 1/1600 SS @ ISO-400
Exp +0.3

[Harold Davis]

hi morkel, i would give it a slight contrast boost and evict the black spot in front of the bird. i like the rocks in the foreground. they are different from what we normally see.

[Morkel Erasmus]

thanks Harold - something like this?

[Harold Davis]

looks good to me!!

[Katie Rupp]

Hi Morkel, I like the improvements you make in the repost and might also crop some off the bottom as I think a bit less of the oof rocks would put more focus on the Plover.

[Fabs Forns]

agree with Katie on too much foreground. The repost without the black spot looks better already.
Glad to see you back to Avian.

[Luis Villablanca]

Good job on the plover.
I like the low angle perspective and feather detail. Ditto on the crop.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Mork, lovely weather we are having over the weekend :o I like the angle here, together with the DOF effect. Your repost looks great, and agree taking off the bottom wont harm this. Maybe lighten the eye a tad.