Snowy Plovers

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Description

Unlike other shore birds, I’m more likely to see the Snowy Plover a ways up the beach and these two were resting in the sand and allowed me to get fairly close. Try as I might, I couldn’t get them both in focus despite a small aperture and moving to a place that seemed parallel with both. So, I ended up with a composite. The one on the left was the composited bird.

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Processing errors with the left bird?

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Canon R5; 100-500 with 1.4 TC at 700 mm; 1/250 at f16, -1/3 EV; ISO 200.

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Allen, Really nice image of these elusive little things. I’ve rarely been able to get close enough for a decent shot.
Fine work with the composite - I can’t tell at all. Looks perfectly natural. Both with nice poses, a bright eye, and fine detail.
A little more room on the left would be good…

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Hi Allen. Nice job on the composite-sometimes that’s the only way to go and it works well in this case. The frame does feel a bit tight, but that’s very minor. Since you asked about the compositing, I looked closely at the area immediately around the bird and there’s a small area above the tail where the sand is out of focus, yet in focus above it and to the left of it which I suspect is an anomaly from the compositing. A little careful cloning on the background would easily fix it.

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