Piping Plover

Gallery: AvianPosted May 2, 2017183 views5 comments

Another from my visit to Padre Island National Seashore. The bg in this is the tracks of the mini trucks they use for beach patrol on the "no vehicle" part of the beach. That is no vehicles except official vehicles of which there were far too many in my opinion. This bird wouldn't let me get too close, though it never really ran away, just kept its distance. I suspect it resented the "jewelry". Consequently, this is a pretty significant crop.

7Dii, Sigma 150-600 C @ 600 mm, hand held, f/7.1, 1/2000, iso 640, manual exposure. Processed in LR & PS CC. Cropped to 6.17 MP before resizing. Taken April 13th at 8:48 AM.

Comments and criticisms are always appreciated.

Thanks,

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by Allen Brooks on May 3, 2017 at 10:03 AM

Nice find. I understand these birds aren't that common. Nice sharpness in the bird and I like the walking pose.

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Comment posted by Mike Ramy on May 3, 2017 at 12:09 PM

Hey Dennis,
Beautiful composition with nice detail, pose and color pallet. To bad about the tracks in the sand and the leg bands but that's way beyond your control. The overall image seems a bit too bright on my monitor especially the neck and breast feathers along with the sand in front of the subject but overall nicely presented considering the harsh light you were dealing with.
Well done . . . laugh

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on May 3, 2017 at 2:57 PM

The detail held up well for such a severe crop. A small amount of exposure adjustment down would help.

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Comment posted by Barbara Graham on May 5, 2017 at 11:50 AM

Colors, details and foreground are wonderful in the larger view. It also doesn't look too bright to me in the larger view.

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Comment posted by Hans Overduin on May 7, 2017 at 2:43 PM

Nice bird, never seen the species myself. Awful when the 'officials' do exactly what they don't want the rest of the people to do... Cheers, Hans

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