American Wigeon.

[dankearl]

A few winter ducks are beginning to show up at my pond.
Taken today.
D500, 500pf, f5.6, 1/3200, iso1100
2DS_2414bpn.jpg (http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=183462&stc=1&d=1570417725)

[Tim Foltz]

Dan, nice angle, light and wing position, you are a little hot on some of your whites but besides that I like it.

-Tim

[Jonathan Ashton]

A fine shot Dan full of action and well focused. Have you been using Nik filters or similar, I wonder if I see a little masking errors on the lower edge of the left wing?
The shallow DOF shows the duck beautifully against the grey water.

[Colin Driscoll]

A lovely bird with good timing and wing position. It looks a bit tricky to expose with that clean white beside what looks almost black.

[David Roach]

Perfect BG for this colorful beauty, Love the details and even like the head completely against that far wing. TFS

[gail bisson]

Love the bird but not so crazy about the BG.
The white on the wing is soooo hard to control. It requires significant underexposing of the rest of the bird.
In my own experience, that rarely results in a good image so I think this is pretty good!
Gail

[John Mack]

Love the pose. The wing position is nice. Light looks pretty good as well. Composition is right on.

[Arthur Morris]

Pretty much perfect. Killer wing position. Good catch by Jon of the dark small triangle between p-5 and p-6 (I think)...

with love, a

[William Dickson]

Looking real good....Nice flight pose, details and colours throughout.

Will