Golden Plover Calling + Repost

This one wasn't quite as close as Phil's earlier frame filler and has needed a crop to 70% of full frame. Occasionally you get a curious one that wanders across the heather for a closer look at you but this one stayed a fair distance away.

7D 700mm ISO:160 1/640 sec @ f/5.6

Thanks for looking

Simon

Good action Simon, Nice subject and a good background.

I might try a landscape format as you have some spare pixels, based on your crop.

Cheers

Austin

Really nice but a bit soft I think. Beautiful bird.

Edwin

Not sure if it is soft (at this size) but I think the combination of light, posture, behaviour and habitat work very well together.

Cheers,
Chris

Thanks guys. I haven't applied much sharpening to this Edwin but I thought the fine detail was still there around the eye and beak for example. It wouldn't make a huge print admittedly due to the crop but I'm working on getting some closer images.

very nice light, pose and background and a very attractive bird. It does look a little soft though.

Matt

Here's a repost with a bit more sharpening applied to the bird. Having looked at a few images of GP's posted here though the feather detail does seem to smooth out unless the image is a real close-up, particularly at this size. I'd be interested to know if the extra sharpening improves matters though.

Cheers, Simon

Hi simon the techs suggest a sharp image should result ,but I tend to agree with some above .Pulling the curves up and asking for '' show clipping '' indicates some heavy clipping especially around the front of the breast . The jpeg compression obviously ins't helping here but this may be putting some blead into to the pixels causing its apparant softness. ?A landscape crop would work too.

The tighter crop works better imho but a landscape shot would have been my choice for this one.
Love the open beak though!

greetings,

Jeroen Stel