Oystercatcher Silhouette (repost)

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Posted by Liam Pauling on October 25, 2009 at 1:07 PM

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Decided to head down to the beach this morning, seeing as though the last time I did the clocks went forward. I was expecting lots of birds but there was just one Oystercatcher, Turnstone and to many dog walkers

So I was happy to come away with this image, especially with Oystercatchers being so shy. Any c&c appreciated.

40D 1/500s f/6.3 ISO400 400mm frisbee

Posted by NEIL_O on October 25, 2009 at 1:47 PM

Not sure about this one, I think it is the rather bland environment. But I do like the idea.

Did you try lower and larger in the frame, as I think this would have worked really well.

Neil

Posted by PhilH on October 25, 2009 at 1:58 PM

Hi Liam,

I'm with Neil here, Its not quite there, I think the OC needs to be more in sillouette.. I m guessing you are shooting down an incline on the beach.... perhaps you can re-process, to make more of the sillouette, loose a lot of the top to make a pano and I think there is a nice image in there.

HTH

Phil

Posted by Craig Jones on October 25, 2009 at 2:04 PM

Like the pose/action captured Liam nits covered,lovely image

Posted by Liam Pauling on October 25, 2009 at 2:09 PM

Thanks for the comments, I have had a re-proccess and I am happy with how it turned out. I think I agree with the comments as my original was in between a silhouette and backlit.

I was slightly above the bird and was making my way down the shingle (rather painfully) with a full frame shot in mind but of course a dog walker had other ideas and chucked a ball straight at me

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Posted by Andy Shepherd on October 25, 2009 at 4:44 PM

I think Phil's idea of a pano crop will work well on this one Liam, keep em coming.

Andy...