Theme: Purple Sandpiper

[Ilija Dukovski]

After a long and busy winter,
I managed to get inspired and go out today.
I got this one at Atlantic Ave. in Gloucester, MA.
Very dark overcast, low tide, extremely slippery rocks,
but I managed to get few images hand held with TC2.0.
I leaned the lens on a (relatively) dry rock to stabilize it a bit.

CC appreciated.

Nikon D700 300mm+TC2.0 ISO800 f/8 1/250

Cheers!

Ilija Dukovski

[Arthur Morris]

Love the pose and the high key look. The bird looks a tad over-sharpened to me, esp. the breast.

[Ilija Dukovski]

Thanks Artie,

I did two layers of sharpening, reduced the
opacity on the 2nd, not enough obviously


Thanks again,

[James Salywoda]

I love the pose the composition is great Ilija nicely done.

[Dan Busby]

Ilija - nicely done. I really like the stare-down-the-barrel pose and the low angle - well worth the obvious effort to obtain such an angle. The high key effect looks great. I don't really see the over-sharpening unless those white speckles on the breast were created by it. Nice job of getting a sharp image under difficult conditions.

[Ilija Dukovski]

Thanks James, appreciated.

Dan, the over-sharpening are exactly the speckles you mention.
Sharpening is in essence
higher contrast on a pixel level. Here some white pixels are too hot,
the effect probably being enhanced during jpeg conversion.
The effect is easiest to notice of course what you sharpen
an edge between dark and light regions.

[Nico Steenberg]

Great eye contact and low angle with great sharpness and exposure !