American Oystercatcher

Gallery: AvianPosted February 17, 201169 views10 comments

American Oystercatcher coming in for a landing on Galveston Bay. The BG is the glassy water in early morning light - you can just make out a few ripples in the FG.

1DMk4, 600 MM + 1.4, 1/800 @ f11, ISO 400
Manual Exp., spot metered, tripod, 50% of FF

Comments and Critiques greatly appreciated.

Comments

10 comments

Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on February 17, 2011 at 8:16 PM

Great catch!
Perfect exposure, nice sats and eye, and clean BG.
Really Nice!
Sandy

Registered on November 24, 2003, 3937 Posts, 12909 Comments

Comment posted by Richard Ditch on February 17, 2011 at 8:40 PM

Nice flight position. There's a bit of a halo around the wings and head from the Clarity slider in raw conversion or perhaps from use of Shadow/Highlight.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 1031 Posts, 12705 Comments

Comment posted by Eric Diller on February 17, 2011 at 8:58 PM

Nice details indeed!!

Registered on October 2, 2009, 69 Posts, 434 Comments

Comment posted by Gary Marquart on February 17, 2011 at 10:00 PM

Nice flight shot, nice exposure ( blacks and whites). Well done!!!

Registered on October 24, 2009, 126 Posts, 799 Comments

Comment posted by Michael Lotito on February 17, 2011 at 10:09 PM

Excellent flight shot!

Registered on June 26, 2009, 181 Posts, 1558 Comments

Comment posted by David Haynes on February 17, 2011 at 10:40 PM

Randy,
Great depth of field here at F/11. Nice and sharp with great whites. You nailed this one. No nits from me.

Registered on February 20, 2010, 110 Posts, 1511 Comments

Comment posted by Mauro Pasquero on February 18, 2011 at 1:51 AM

Great shot, Randy. Very nice pose. Perfect exposure and sharpness.
Mauro

Registered on January 21, 2010, 650 Posts, 2500 Comments

Comment posted by Karen Summers on February 18, 2011 at 12:10 PM

A lovely clear crisp shot love the orange beak

Registered on December 3, 2009, 83 Posts, 818 Comments

Comment posted by Rob Drummond on February 18, 2011 at 5:53 PM

Knowing the background is water rather than sky puts a whole new perspective on the shot. Really like the flight pose and the glassy water.

cheers
Rob

Registered on November 8, 2003, 617 Posts, 8267 Comments

Comment posted by Ron Dudley on February 19, 2011 at 9:57 AM

Really like the slightly gangly flight posture Randy and you've handled the challenging exposure well. I too see the halo previously mentioned.

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