Ruddy Turnstone

[Richard Unsworth]

Love to watch these and its fun to chase them around trying to get shots!

Captured on the rough beach at Puerto Jimenez, Osa Peninsula, CR

Flat on beach lying on an old WET sack lol, HH, image rotated to level, cropped and sharpened using Topaz NR and USM

cANON 7d 100-400 IS
F 7.1 eV +1.33 iso 400 ss 1/640

Hope you like

[arash_hazeghi]

This is excellent, great low angle and details and a nice pose. some whites are a bit hot.

[Dumay de Boulle]

Excellent IQ and like the colors and angle...Personally I would like to see more room on top

[gail bisson]

Good IQ and dynamic pose. I too, would like to see more room on the top. An EV of +1 would have been perfect for this as some of the whites are a bit hot ( but I am OK with that as it is a minor nit!)I like the little pebbles on the beach and the color it brings to the image,
Gail

[Geir Jensen]

Fun to lie on your stomach and get wet and dirty .................... Great picture. wish a little more space in front and over the bird. Fine colors. Great BG. Good IQ.

[Frank Angileri]

Overall, I like the detail and coloration, I would like to see just a bit more space in front of the bird.

Frank

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Richard, tack sharp, and love the low perspective and the pose with the raised foot. I agree, the whites below the wing seem to be hot.

[Gary Hamilton]

Excellent IQ and I love how the DOF drops off so quickly behind the bird on the pebbles. Nice "sneaky" pose. Would like to see more room above and in front of bird but overall very well done.

[Morkel Erasmus]

Excellent pose, angle, IQ and colour here. Agree on the whites...

[Richard Unsworth]

Thanks all

good suggestions
went back to raw and redone, fair bit to work on think I got the white back some, histo shows only 255 spot is catchlite.
this was a difficult image to PP was not straight and had to be rotated, adding canvas to compensate; fair few speculars in the shot had to spot em all out
its fun anyhow

[James Salywoda]

Repost looks much better love the pose and details captured.

[Sid Garige]

Repost works very well Richard. Very colorful beach.

[Jim Crosswell]

Nice image Richard! I like the raised foot, details and colourful beach. Repost is an improvement.

[Manjeet & Yograj Jadeja]

awesome shot