Ruddy Turnstone and crab

[gail bisson]

Canon 7D
f 4.0 500 mm with 1.4x extender
ISO 640
SS 1/800
f 5.6
Taken Sept 15 at 05:36 AM
Manual and cropped by 40%
Cloned out some distracting OOF rocks around the bill.
Comments and critiques always learned from and appreciated with thanks,
Gail

[Arno Ellmer]

Lovely action captured here,Gail, with good light on the bird.Would have wished for a better head and body angle.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Neat feeding behaviour on the crab carcass and good job getting low. Ditto Arno about body angle...I take it you couldn't move to your left.

[gail bisson]

Thanks guys! I do have a better angle of this guy. I thought the light was better in the OP but it appears that a better angle of bird is better. Here is a better shot and I clone out the OOF rocks in the BG,
Gail
PS. I hope it is OK to post a different picture

[Karl Egressy]

Nice low angle and nice behavior captured , Gail. I would go with the second one as it has nicer head and body angle.

[Melissa Groo]

I much prefer this one too. Excellent low angle, Gail! Great light too, and nice action shot.

[arash_hazeghi]

Gail, the image in pane #4 is much better than #1 because of HA. I'd take this one and clean up the sand/BG a bit. looks like it needs slight rotation too. The belly is a bit hot, but it's an easy fix.

Excellent light, low angle and details!

[Jim Crosswell]

Nice image Gail! I prefer the image in pane 4 as well. I like the low angle, lunch and details.

[Brendan Dozier]

I see what you mean about the great light in pane one Gail, but I overall I do prefer image in pane four. Great low angle, prey adds interest, and like the shallow dof. Arash makes some good suggestions.

[EzhilSuresh]

Very nice photos with good lighting and details. Personally prefer the first one.

Happy New Year.

[gail bisson]

I have revamped the image as per Arash's and others suggestions,

[arash_hazeghi]

Hi Gail,
The chest is still hot, you can see that the red channel is blown in this area. Try to bring down the red channel in RAW/TIFF.

Hope this helps