Black Oystercatcher

Gallery: AvianPosted July 16, 201594 views6 comments

Canon 1D-X, 500mm f4, handheld
f8, 1/800, ISO800

Kachemak Bay, Alaska.

75% of full frame. Adjustments to Levels, Highlights and selective sharpening of bird. I find this species to be a bit tough to expose, but this was a cloudy day with light drizzle, which helped a lot.

C & C, please. Thanks for looking.

Comments

6 comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on July 16, 2015 at 6:59 PM

Excellent job on the exposure, Jim. Superb detail in the dark plumage and that bill is an outrageous orange. BTW, thanks for chiming in on the ID of my gull, I was hoping you would.

devil

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Comment posted by Charles Gangas on July 16, 2015 at 9:30 PM

Great job exposing this scene Jim. Excellent detail and a very nice composition too.

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Comment posted by Peter J. Morrissey on July 17, 2015 at 10:27 AM

Hi Jim

Nice work on the exposer, the blank and beak came out nicely.

Peter

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on July 18, 2015 at 3:29 AM

Jim,

We have our own version of this here in SA (and Namibia) so I know how difficult it is to get a good image.

This is wonderful devil devil

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Comment posted by Andrew Sentipal on July 18, 2015 at 8:15 AM

Stunning image of a beautiful bird. I love the detail in the foreground and the wave in the background. Thanks for sharing this one.

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on July 21, 2015 at 6:20 PM

Beautiful detail in the blacks here Jim, the cloudy light certainly helped with that. If it were mine I would crop the wave cresting from the top because I don't really like the squarish crop and it makes the image a bit cleaner. devil

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