From this past weekend. This is the male of a pair that has chicks. My plan was to lay down and see if they would come close. Took three shots then left as the male ran over to me and began his broken wing display. Some other day. They have enough perils without the distraction of a photographer.
1/2500, f 5.6, ISO800
Canon 1Dmk4, 500 f4 + 1.4tc + upside down blubb for support.
Last edited by Grace Scalzo; 05-10-2012 at 11:28 AM.
Reason: Poor grammar.
The trick broken wing display will break hearts, believe it! I didn't know about this marvelous behavior and on one sad occasion tortured a poor killdeer who I thought was just "being silly" but of course that was years ago before I learned the ways of that stupidly-named but lovely-looking bird. And of course it's not the bird's fault if some bozo gave him a dumb name. Chickadees, anyone? Moving on, this is a beautiful picture, Grace! Lovely soft colors in the background and so forth. I saw a killdeer nest this morning, as a matter of interest. At my local migrant-stopover park. The construction men thought to put four orange pylons around the thing. It was uncanny: the nervous killdeer sitting on eggs on the ground, four orange pylons marking the perimeter, and many idiotic humans with their floppy dogs getting real close and saying things like "Jeez you can see the eggs! Man, that bird's really freakin!"
Hi Grace, well your lying down certainly created a great low perspective, and I like the angle of the Kildeer too. I like the DOF effect, soft light and the colours of the distant OOF BG. The Killdeer is probably sitting in the bottom ROT's, but I would still maybe take a touch off the top.
Beautiful image, Grace...I love everything about it. I like the comp as is, and I like the play between the FG and BG. That blue area at top is very nice!
Great low angle Grace. It always creates such a softness that I just love. Shame the babies didn't come but you did get a nice shot here. I really like your crop.
Killdeer
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