Long-billed Dowitcher

[Dave Leroy]

I had posted the heads up shot in avian a month or so ago. This also just missing one ha. I tried very hard not to have any channels blown out and still ended up with off at both ends. Everything was ok at tiff size.
50D, 500mm, 1/1250, f/5.6,Av +1.33, ISO400. Leveled and cropped. Rather than set a white/black point, I set bg as a grey point as it was very close any way.

[Dave Mills]

Hi Dave, another pleasing image! Somehow I feel the first post is a bit stronger due to presence of the single bird.
This is also well handled!

[Lance Peters]

Hi Dave - whilst this does work - do prefer the first one - have just enough separation between the birds here - Ha's look pretty good.
The original had a softer feel whilst also not appearing as contrasty as this one - Also having the single bird there was 1 really defined thing to focus on.
IMHO of course.
Good show!

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Dave for this one would just lighten the face/neck area for the front bird !! Very nice feel !!

[arash_hazeghi]

looks very nice, great exposure and low angle pose is great and there is just enough seperation between the two. it seems to be a bit lacking in fine details, maybe a big crop?

[Dave Leroy]

Thanks guys. Comments are very helpful.
Arash crop is larger than I would have liked. I was in the middle of a mud flat with no where to hide, staying low and all the twisting and turning got me off level. I agree that looking at it today online it looks soft.