Again from Fort Desoto's north beach area...I haven't done too much bird photography this year so you can bet I'm milking this past Florida trip for all it's worth!! A ittle bigger in the frame than I usually prefer, but I like the toe dragging action across the water. Quite the tame littlwe fellas!
Canon 7D + 100-400L @400mm, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/1600s., f/6.3, ISO 400 (histogram checked), natural light, handheld (elbows braced to the ground), slight CW rotation and then protruding corners cropped away, darkened a light area above using clone tool at low opacity.
Great looking specimen, nice low angle, sharp with good detail. I really don't like the manipulated eye though - this is not how it really looks. Here is a crop of the same species with the eye without "doctoring".
Daniel, a amazing shot as usual, do love the blue water in this incredible low angle. The raised foot is a must...
Ofer, I do have pictures of diferent species different from this one, but I have noticed that with different light angles, somethimes you can see the eye completelly black and sometimes you can see some color and detail like this one.
Stunning shot Daniel, like the raised foot and soft light. Humberto may have a point on different light angles. I have also seen the birds eye go darker as light quality changes.
Hey all, thanks a bunch! As for the eye, most often they do appear black or very dark at a glance and in strong contratsy light, but I often see the pupil at certain light angle (and cloudy conditions) and I love it when it happens so I replicate it in my images by lightening the iris a bit, or sometimes just burning the pupil in some species where the iris is already prominent (some sparrows, flycatchers, plovers amongst others are especially visible). Thanks for the varying thoughts about that, I appreciate it!
Daniel, killer low angle, colors and pose. Seems like you had a blast down there. I wouldn't touch a thing. No, its not too big in the frame in my humble opinion.
Ruddy Turnstone.
A ittle bigger in the frame than I usually prefer, but I like the toe dragging action across the water. Quite the tame littlwe fellas!
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