Shake it out

[Lance Peters]

A recent one - this guy didn't hang around for long - couple of quick shots.

D3S
Sigmonster @800mm
F5.6
1/1500TH
-1.0 EV
Matrix Metering
Aperture Priority
Tripod

Comments welcome ;)

[Harshad Barve]

Lovely shaking pose Lance , liked the feathers and raised feet , excellent
TFS

[Troy Lim]

I assume this is Oyster Catcher.
I noticed that those from China, the legs are the same colors. Here, they are usually really pale pinks.

Like the composition, looks like SS speed must be slow, as the legs look blurry.
Can relate on you saying they didn't hang around long. Plus, they are fast too. :)

[Alfred Forns]

Sweet looking bird Lance !!! Love the shaking pose and the all important foot action :)

[VinceRossi]

Hi lance,
I like the level at which you took this. Were you laying down? Also, I would have tried to take out the blurry strip on the bottom, Either by cloning or cropping. Just my opinion.

Vince

[Peter Farrell]

Very nice pose with the raised foot. Nice shooting angle as well. I like the soft light. Not crazy about the oof foreground strip.
Peter

[Dave Leroy]

Lovely pose and I really like the exposure on the blacks and whites.

Tripod at such a low shooting angle is good to see. Given the mucky beaches where i normally go my option as well.

My preference would be to crop oof bottom, remove black feather and make bg uniform.

I really like the feather details.

[Neil Nourse]

Lance I like it a lot!!

Don't know that I would change anything!

[Harold Davis]

look at the eyeball position. looking right at you!!!! that's what makes the difference. you can have the proper HEAD angle and not have the proper eyeball angle and it just screws it all up. you got it all here!!!! nicely done!

[Dave Mills]

Hi Lance, nice "fluffed" OC. Good position,HA,detail and backround...good job...

[Lance Peters]

Hi Guys - agree the OOF part at the bottom should be cropped out!!
Personally though - I dont usually remove anything from the BG in P.S.
Thanks for the comments.