Red-knobbed Coot fight

[Dave Barnes]

http://www.thedwbgallery.com/images/20090411_1401.jpg

A particularly aggressive species, Coots spend a lot of time fighting to determine social hierarchy.

Canon 1D mk3
Canon 500 f4
ISO 400
f6.3
SS 1/1000

[Stu Bowie]

Coots at what they do best. Both well exposed, sharp, ( for the relatively slow ss ) and well timed for the action. I like the show of the tongue from the guy on the right. Well captured Dave.

[Dave Barnes]

Sorry Stu, Typo error on SS now corrected.

[Chris Kotze]

Excellent capture Dave. I like the action well captured,exposed and super detail.

[Ramon M. Casares]

Great action, poses, interaction, light, detail and exposure. Congratulations!

[Tony Whitehead]

Great interaction - some real Coot attitude here, Dave. Desaturating the clipped red a bit brings back some detail and selecting the whites with a colour range and copying to a layer with linear burn blend brings some more detail into the beaks.

[Dave Barnes]

Thankd guys appreciated.

[Richard Peters]

A ted bright but good action captured, the sticking out tongue makes it for me!