A Pair of Greater Yellowlegs

[Scott Leslie]

A Pair of Greater Yellowlegs resting in Amherst Point Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Nova Scotia. Canon 5d MkII, 400mm f5.6L, 1/400 f5.6. Thanks for looking.
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[Sachin Saraf]

Scott except for head angle everything else looks good on this one...Nice exposure, DOF is perfect and colors look very rich..the low angle really helped to avoid bank line cutting the head... I will remove the OOF sticks from the BG

[Mital Patel]

Scott,

Indeed lovely light here which i hardly get ever in our part :)

Bummer on the both looking away but i loved the two in a frame. As i see another version of this as a keeper giving it more wider space around specially on right as where they are looking and patch those two oof bright stems coming through water on left.

Adding round of NR on bg may not hurt too.

For me this is surely a keeper as wide scape considering two in frame nice dof as both in sharp and both face visible at-least.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Scott you may want to shoot me down in flames but the image looks very rich in contrast to my eye resulting in appearance that the birds are a little over sharpened. I am sure the image is of a high quality, I may be wrong I have never seen these birds before - but the detritus they are standing on also looks very rich to me. (??)

[Dumay de Boulle]

Head angles are not ideal and there for my taste needs to be a bit more space all around. Nice light and colors with a interesting perch. Watch the sharpening halos...TFS Scott!

[allanrube]

I don't mind the ha as there are two birds and they are obviously looking at something.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Scott, I also dont mind the head angles here. But definitely needs more room around. Judging by wide-open DOF, looks like you will have more room around in the orig. Light, colors and details are nice. Bummer about the OOF sticks...they do hurt an otherwise very fine capture.

[Scott Leslie]

Scott, I also dont mind the head angles here. But definitely needs more room around. Judging by wide-open DOF, looks like you will have more room around in the orig. Light, colors and details are nice. Bummer about the OOF sticks...they do hurt an otherwise very fine capture.

Thanks. The birds were watching a Bonaparte's gull coming into land about a metre away. This taken from a floating bland and is uncropped. Unfortunately, OOF sticks are just another part of nature. We don't want images to look too plasticky and sanitized

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Scott, if this is uncropped, DOF coverage is surprisingly very good. I never shoot wide-open when there are two more more birds. You did a good job of positioning yourself to cover them both.

[Scott Leslie]

Scott, if this is uncropped, DOF coverage is surprisingly very good. I never shoot wide-open when there are two more more birds. You did a good job of positioning yourself to cover them both.

Yes, no cropping, but lots of maneuvering to get the birds on a parallel plain.

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks. The birds were watching a Bonaparte's gull coming into land about a metre away. This taken from a floating bland and is uncropped. Unfortunately, OOF sticks are just another part of nature. We don't want images to look too plasticky and sanitized

So long as you realize that the two sticks on the left are mega-distracting and draw the viewer's eye from the subjects..... The same God that invented nature also invented the Clone Stamp Tool and Quick Masks . Leaving such distracting elements if of course your personal choice.

What is this floating bland thing?

[Arthur Morris]

Welcome BTW. There are lots of other excellent suggestions above--too tight, too contrasty, and a bit over-sharpened--that are worth considering. Our members and Mods generally do an excellent job. Best move would have been to move the floating bland farther away from the birds....

[Scott Leslie]

Welcome BTW. There are lots of other excellent suggestions above--too tight, too contrasty, and a bit over-sharpened--that are worth considering. Our members and Mods generally do an excellent job. Best move would have been to move the floating bland farther away from the birds....

Thanks Mr. Morris for your comments. There most certainly are a lot of talented photographers here who do an excellent job. It's a pleasure to see people enjoying themselves pursuing the great passion of bird photograhy. BTW, I was referring to a floating "blind", I simply made a typo, but I think you knew that!

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks Mr. Morris for your comments. There most certainly are a lot of talented photographers here who do an excellent job. It's a pleasure to see people enjoying themselves pursuing the great passion of bird photograhy. BTW, I was referring to a floating "blind", I simply made a typo, but I think you knew that!

Ah, you got me! I look forward to seeing more of your images. BTW, artie is A-OK.