A KIlldeer

4 years 2 days ago #680398 by Screamin Scott
A Killdeer I spotted while out with my dog. They nest on the ground and pretend that they are injured to try and lure you away from their nest


Make: NIKON CORPORATION
Model: NIKON D610
Lens: 80.0-400.0 mm f/4.5-5.6
ISO: 800
Aperture: f/7.1
Shutter speed: 1/3200 sec
Captured: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:17pm


Make: NIKON CORPORATION
Model: NIKON D610
Lens: 80.0-400.0 mm f/4.5-5.6
ISO: 800
Aperture: f/10.0
Shutter speed: 1/1600 sec
Captured: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:18pm

Scott Ditzel Photography

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4 years 2 days ago #680399 by Ozzie_Traveller
G'day Scott

Seems similar to the Plover we have Downunder - same general colouring plus behaviour
ps- I like the colours of the tail feathers - looks like a defence mechanism of some sort too

Phil from the great land Downunder
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4 years 2 days ago #680404 by Nikon Shooter
Yes, we have them in central Europe and we call them
Little Ringed Plovers.

The first would be my pick of the two, Scott, but your
rendition, seems to be quite overdone to my eye… too
saturated, no tonal taming and lack highlights control.

Boy would like to have a try at the RAW file!

Light is free… capturing it is not!
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4 years 2 days ago #680406 by Nikon Shooter
ADDENDUM

I just checked in my image bank… this is really a killdeer!

The Little Ringed Plover has only one throat collar!

Sorry for that, Scott!  :P

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4 years 1 day ago #680486 by Screamin Scott
This was a quick snap as it was threatening to go away. I did a quick edit in Lightroom only and the rocks were overly bright whereas the bird was not, thus I played with the image a bit to try to find a balance. I  can send you the Raw file if you'd like to play with it...

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4 years 1 day ago - 4 years 1 day ago #680494 by Nikon Shooter
Yes… cooooool!

How should we proceed for the transfer?

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