Black-necked stilt

Gallery: AvianPosted May 17, 2012453 views6 comments

Photographed at the Gilbert Riparian Preserve At Water Ranch in Arizona on March 1, 2012. Nikon D300, Nikkor 300mm f/4 ED-IF AF-S 1/1600s f/8.0 at 600.0mm iso400 with Nikon TC20EIII teleconverter.

I would have preferred a front-lit image, but this is all that I could get in the late afternoon.

Comments and critiques greatly appreciated.

Comments

6 comments

Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on May 17, 2012 at 7:05 AM

Great pose here, too bad the lighting is so poor.
Adding some fill flash in photoshop might help a little.
Wishing you better light in the future..
Sandy

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Comment posted by Ron Bielefeld on May 18, 2012 at 7:41 AM

A nice comp, but a bit too dark for my taste. Using fill flash in the field is really the only way to deal with this lighting situation IMO.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on May 18, 2012 at 10:56 AM

Great pose, Jay. Nice job handling the back-lit image.

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on May 18, 2012 at 12:07 PM

nice pose you got here Jay. Ron is correct about using a fill flash i the filed on this.

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Comment posted by Richard Ditch on May 18, 2012 at 8:07 PM

Ditto Ron's comment.

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Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on May 19, 2012 at 4:48 PM

What Sandy said.

Sometimes you can get away with spot metering; looks like you were using an averaging algorithm.

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