Incoming Whistle Duck

[Juan Tolentino]

I captured this image in Delray Beach, Florida with the Nikon D500 Handheld and Nikkor AF-S 200-500 at 360mm
ISO 640
f5.6
1/2000
Manual Mode
Processed on LR and PS.
Cropped less than 25%.


All C & C's will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for looking

JT

[Tim Foltz]

JT,
Very unique incoming shot, nice BG, and colors.

-Tim

[gail bisson]

The hardest thing to do in bird flight photography is to get an incoming bird's head tack sharp and you nailed it here!
Great BG.I like the dangling feet. Exposure and comp are excellent.
The light nicely shines on the face.
In a perfect world, the underwings would be a bit more lit up, but the sun at your side makes this impossible.
Gail

[Arthur Morris]

Well done on the sharpness. Images like this are why I switched :) For the repost I ran my NIK 50-50 recipe on the bird only and used a large brush to erase the edges at 50%. Me thinks that it helps.

wtih love, artie

[John Whaley]

I really like this one Juan. It is obviously a very hard shot to get in the first place as ducks don't generally fly at you at eye level and then you have to nail the focus. So well done on both counts. Good detail, tack focus, The dark background works and Artie's edit improves. Agree that in a perfect world there would be more detail available under the wings.

[Juan Tolentino]

Thank you for the comments guys.

Artie, thank you for taking the time to work on the image.


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