David Berry
🇦🇺 Australia 🦘
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Early this morning the seas parted, and I walked across 'dry land' to King Island in Moreton Bay.
After an hour or so photographing a Striated Heron (more on that little fellow later), I found a shady spot provided by a grove of casuarinas in which a White-breasted Woodswallow was gathering nesting material (more, etc. later).
My hot chocolate and muesli were scarcely finished, when this dapper oystercatcher wandered past, almost begging to have its portrait taken. I obliged.
The strange background colours are provided courtesy of Moreton Bay's sands – red on the mainland and cream from the huge sand islands separating the bay from the Coral Sea. The lens was pointed slightly down so that the tidal flats fifty metres away – not the marina at five kilometres – formed the background.
As always with pied birds my challenge, on the island and 'in post', was to retain feather detail at both ends of the histogram.
Canon R5m2 | RF 200–800
500 mm | ƒ/8 | 1/2500s | ISO 2500
30 frames/second | pre-continuous raw | ±7.5 metres
DxO PR4 | LrC
After an hour or so photographing a Striated Heron (more on that little fellow later), I found a shady spot provided by a grove of casuarinas in which a White-breasted Woodswallow was gathering nesting material (more, etc. later).
My hot chocolate and muesli were scarcely finished, when this dapper oystercatcher wandered past, almost begging to have its portrait taken. I obliged.
The strange background colours are provided courtesy of Moreton Bay's sands – red on the mainland and cream from the huge sand islands separating the bay from the Coral Sea. The lens was pointed slightly down so that the tidal flats fifty metres away – not the marina at five kilometres – formed the background.
As always with pied birds my challenge, on the island and 'in post', was to retain feather detail at both ends of the histogram.
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Canon R5m2 | RF 200–800
500 mm | ƒ/8 | 1/2500s | ISO 2500
30 frames/second | pre-continuous raw | ±7.5 metres
DxO PR4 | LrC
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