Common Snipe

[Mital Patel]

Common Snipe
(Gallinago gallinago)
Gujarat, INDIA

March 13, 2011, 8-20am
1D MARK IV, 500 F/4, 1.4x TC
1/1000, f/8, ISO 400 @ 700mm

C & C Much Appreciated.

[arash_hazeghi]

nice low angle and details, I prefer a slightly tighter crop to show the details better

[Mital Patel]

nice low angle and details, I prefer a slightly tighter crop to show the details better

Thanks Arash,

And sorry for forgetting everytime saying about crop. this is really a big crop say around 60% cropped version and i think i have still room to go beyond that for web as clarity was good. will try to crop more and see if can re-produce entire thing from scratch..

[Kiran Poonacha]

nice low angle here Bhai... loved the light and moment captured..

[Mital Patel]

Here's very quick enlarged from scratch.

[Jim Fenton]

Looks just like our Wilson's Snipe....

Love the low angle and personally, I prefer the original to the repost. The repost has the subject too centered IMHO and it looks as though the detail has started to break down a bit?

Love the angle and the color of the water. It would be really exceptional if all of those little bubbles weren't there :)

It may be an illusion but it looks as though both images could use the slightest touch of a cw rotation?

[Mital Patel]

It may be an illusion but it looks as though both images could use the slightest touch of a cw rotation?

Thanks a stack Jim,

Its surely an illusion as i went through the Artie's trick of putting ruler to check the angle of horizon and it was just fine.


Yes indeed i wish those bubbles were not there but this is a typical domain of theirs and i would like to keep it like that so my bad on that.

[arash_hazeghi]

The repost is much better IMO, the details looks great

[Ilija Dukovski]

Can't decide between version, I think I prefer the first one.
In any case, these are great colors, the plumage is excellent.
The deep green water color is excellent too. Very nice!

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Mital, awesome....loved the low angle and the details. Excellent pose...very engaging. I like both crops. Well done.

[Bill Dix]

Beautiful light, great low angle. Detail holds up well in the repost, but somewhere in between the two would also work for me. Hope you also got some with his bill out of the water. Rotation looks just right to me based on the reflection.

[Daniel Cadieux]

I much prefer the OP...but it does indeed need some CCW rotation to my eye (repost looks level). Nice feeding pose and reflection. Too bad about the faint green blotches on the reflected shoulders.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Nice peek a boo look there. Great low angle and eflection . I'm with the OP group.

[RAM MALLYA]

Loved the low level feel here buddy

[Emily Norman]

Simply beautiful image, I prefer the original post. I really like how the gradient in the background is mirrored perfectly in water. Fantastic detail on the bird too.