Male Wood Duck Portrait.

[Daniel Cadieux]

From a couple of weeks ago when there were still a bit of leaves in the trees to reflect in the water, because as you can see the male Wood Duck needs all the help it can to make images colourful:t3.

Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/200s., f/5.6, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, about 85% FF, the flanks darkened, and the white "chinstrap" also toned down to reveal more detail. Duck attracted closer with cracked corn.

[Ross Taylor]

Simply gorgeous Daniel :) I think you nailed this one and good.

What I like most about it is how we see detail in the iridescent crown, the incredible detail in the eye, and water that looks like white wine ;)

Thanks,
Ross

[Marina Scarr]

This is like the perfect woody portrait. Colors are just awesome b/c you had that muted light and a killer BG.

[arash_hazeghi]

sweet shot with great light and details well done Dan

[William Dickson]

Very sweet indeed. Fab colours throughout and a lovely pose.

Will

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Dan, you have nailed the exposure on this multi coloured fellow, not to mention the sharpness. I feel the colourful water is just so much an extra bonus.

[keith mitchell]

Dan it's all been well covered above but one amazing piece of work.

Keith.

[Mike Poole]

Can only echo the above comments, simple portrait made better with the perfect use of light and colours available

Mike

[Lorant Voros]

Classic and beautiful. Very nice work.

[Karl Egressy]

Lovely portrait, nice colors and details, Daniel. The golden water sets the subject off very nicely.

[Glenn Conlan]

Great colors and detail

[Satish Ranadive]

Gorgeous portrait, Daniel Sir.
Love the frame.

Regards,
Satish.

[Jim Crosswell]

Beautiful image Daniel! I like the IQ, colorful subject, BG and details.