American Avocet

[Aloicious]

Male American Avocet at the bear river migratory bird refuge

 

[sm4him]

I love these! Outstanding! Especially that first one--look at the bill on that thing, that's just crazy.

 

[Aloicious]

Thanks

 

[HL45]

Terrific shots!

 

[WesternGuy]

These are both good - I like the second one best. As for the first one, watch your backgrounds. The twigs/branches are distracting, particularly the darker one on the right. Maybe use a larger aperture to blur the background better.

WesternGuy

 

[Aloicious]

These are both good - I like the second one best. As for the first one, watch your backgrounds. The twigs/branches are distracting, particularly the darker one on the right. Maybe use a larger aperture to blur the background better.

WesternGuy

yeah I hear you on that, but with this guy was so close that I took what I could get regardless of the background. it was shot wide open at f6.7 (f4+1.7x TC)...I'm going to try a 1.4x TC (found one locally yay!) that I'm going to try out next week, that should give me a little more working room to open the aperture a little more if needed when I need that extra reach as circumstances dictate...

 

[ryanparker]

wow, amazing shots! Such beautiful colors & details...very nice!

 

[JonathanGallagher]

Great shots there, excellant!