Daniel Cadieux
12-03-2014, 07:19 PM
This fall has been good to me for waterfowl, including my first ever Harlequin Duck. Now here is a my first ever male Northern Pintail (I photographed a female a few years ago). These guys can be found numbering in the hundreds, and even thousands, in local flooded farmers fields during the spring thaw, but always hundreds of yards away.
I was rather happy when I stumbled upon this fella cruising the shoreline near the same spot the Harlequin Duck was found, and it too came close enough for eventual full-frame head-and-shoulder portraits. Here's a full-body image first...
Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/250s., f/5.6, ISO 800, small crop for comp, natural light, handheld, usual eye work, a grey steak behind the head eliminated.
I was rather happy when I stumbled upon this fella cruising the shoreline near the same spot the Harlequin Duck was found, and it too came close enough for eventual full-frame head-and-shoulder portraits. Here's a full-body image first...
Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/250s., f/5.6, ISO 800, small crop for comp, natural light, handheld, usual eye work, a grey steak behind the head eliminated.